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Antibiotics no longer help against many bacteria. But phages can kill such bacteria. After a long break, phage research is now picking up speed again.
When the phone rings, Steffanie Strathdee is exceptionally not in the hospital with her husband. She has been watching his bed almost constantly for weeks. Thomas Patterson had brought back a bacterial infection from a holiday in Egypt, and as antibiotics failed to work, it soon became serious. First his kidneys failed, then other organs. But giving up was not an option for Steffanie Strathdee. The epidemiologist from the University of California
