Three bacteria-killing viruses were genetically modified to become more lethal towards a superbug that was infecting a teenage girl. — TNS
Genetically-engineered phages – viruses that kill bacteria – have been used for the first time to treat a patient struggling with a dangerous, persistent superbug infection.
The 15-year-old girl had been infected with Mycobacterium abscessus, which is in the same genus as the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
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