Therapy could stop superbugs on farms

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¿What have researchers at Leicester University demonstrated? An alternative to antibiotics can be developed for the treatment of diseases	Image: Bacteriofagos (image/png)
¿What are the viruses that have been identified? Bacteriófagos	Image: Bac (image/png)
¿How can bacteriophages be used? To kill common porcine infections.	Image: Sin Título (image/png)
¿What is the purpose of this bacterium? Reduce the risk of bacteria resistant to emerging antibiotics on farms that could also infect humans.	Image: Asm (image/png)
¿What happens if tests on pigs work? The new therapy could be extended to treat people.	Image: Descarga (image/png)
¿What did Professor Martha Clokie say on BBC New? The first results indicated that phage therapy could be "completely transformative for human health". "There are many infections that we simply can not treat with antibiotics because they have become resistant to them"	Image: Bacteriófago T4 (image/jpeg)
¿For how long have scientists tried to develop phage treatments? More than a century, but for the most part they have proved to be unreliable	Image: Hob Atbb Blue C (image/png)
¿Who financed the research? The Board of Agriculture and Horticulture Development	Image: Farmer 880567 960 720 (image/jpeg)
¿Where do phage occur? Phages are produced in nature and are the natural enemy of many infectious agents.	Image: Brecca O (image/jpeg)

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