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PPP075: Fighting antimicrobial resistance using bacteriophages with Prof Jonathan Iredell

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Kristin and Jane are joined by Professor Jonathan Iredell, ID and Microbiology Consultant at Westmead and Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Sydney Medical School.

We discuss:

  • What is a bacteriophage?

  • How can they help in a battle against antimicrobial resistance?

  • How do we use them? What’s the dose and route of administration?

  • Which infections can they be used for?

  • How can they be regulated?

  • What adverse effects can we expect from phage therapy?

Further reading:

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug : A Memoir by Stephanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson, available at the Book Depository

Professor Iredell’s research page at Sydney Uni

A review of phage therapy published this year by Patey and colleagues (Full text available)

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Kristin and Jane are joined by Professor Jonathan Iredell, ID and Microbiology Consultant at Westmead and Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Sydney Medical School.

We discuss:

  • What is a bacteriophage?

  • How can they help in a battle against antimicrobial resistance?

  • How do we use them? What’s the dose and route of administration?

  • Which infections can they be used for?

  • How can they be regulated?

  • What adverse effects can we expect from phage therapy?

Further reading:

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug : A Memoir by Stephanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson, available at the Book Depository

Professor Iredell’s research page at Sydney Uni

A review of phage therapy published this year by Patey and colleagues (Full text available)

  continue reading

127 episodes

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