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Dynamics of success and failure in phage and antibiotic therapy in experimental infections

BACKGROUND: In 1982 Smith and Huggins showed that bacteriophages could be at least as effective as antibiotics in preventing mortality from experimental infections with a capsulated E. coli (K1) in mice. Phages that required the K1 capsule for infection were more effective than phages that did not r...

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Autores principales: Bull, J J, Levin, Bruce R, DeRouin, Terry, Walker, Nina, Bloch, Craig A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC138797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12453306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-2-35