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Best Life: Bacteria eating virus

Action News 5 - December 20, 2022

The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics - November 11, 2022

Dr. Saima Aslam on: Phage Hunt

Febrile Podcast - August 29, 2022

Can viruses save lives?

Biomedical Science Journal for Teens - April 2021

When a Virus Is the Cure

The New Yorker, Nicola Twilley - December 14, 2020

Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us

Scientific American, David Pride - December 2020

Viruses, lords of creation—exploring the little-known viral universe

Babbage Podcast, The Economist - August 26, 2020

Bacteria-eating viruses could provide a route to stability in cystic fibrosis

Nature Outlook - July 26, 2020

Treat Phage Like Living Antibiotics

Nature Microbiology- February 29, 2020

Viral ‘Smart Bombs’ Are Becoming Weapons Against Superbugs

Bloomberg Businessweek- November 18, 2019

Steffanie Strathdee: ‘Phages have evolved to become perfect predators of bacteria’

THE GUARDIAN - ZOE CORBYN - JUNE 15, 2019

Engineered bacteriophages for treatment of a patient with a disseminated drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus

NATURE MEDICINE VOLUME 25, PAGES 730–733 (2019)

Genetically Modified Viruses Help Save A Patient With A 'Superbug' Infection

NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - ROB STEIN - MAY 8, 2019

Could Viruses Be 'The Perfect Predator' To Fight Superbugs?

WBUR HERE AND NOW - MARCH 6, 2019

How to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs: Woman saves husband with phage therapy

TODAY - A. PAWLOWSKI - MARCH 1, 2019

Superbugs Are Nearly Impossible to Fight. This Last-Resort Medical Treatment Offers Hope

TIME MAGAZINE- ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN - DECEMBER 18, 2017

How Sewage Saved My Husband's Life from a Superbug

TEDXNASHVILLE - STEFFANIE STRATHDEE - PUBLISHED OCTOBER 17, 2017

He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.

MOTHER JONES - MARYN MCKENNA - MAY/JUNE 2018 ISSUE

Her Husband Was Dying From A Superbug. She Turned To Sewer Viruses Collected By The Navy.

BUZZFEED - AZEEN GHORAYSHI - MAY 6, 2017

Sewage Saved This Man’s Life. Someday It Could Save Yours.

HUFFPOST - LAUREN WEBER - MAY 11, 2017

Viruses save a man from antibiotic-resistant bacteria

THE GUARDIAN - LIZ SOCKETT - DECEMBER 24, 2017

A patient’s legacy: Researchers work to make phage therapy less of a long shot

STAT NEWS -  ERIC BOODMAN - NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Bacteriophage Therapy

UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH'S NEWSROOM