Phage therapy in a lung transplant recipient with cystic fibrosis infected with multidrug-resistant Burkholderia multivorans

  09 March 2023

There is increased interest in bacteriophage (phage) therapy to treat infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A lung transplant recipient with cystic fibrosis and Burkholderia multivorans infection was treated with inhaled phage therapy for 7 days before she died.

This case of clinical failure of nebulized phage therapy highlights the limitations, unknowns, and challenges of phage therapy for resistant infections.

Further reading: Transplant Inf Dis
Author(s): Ghady Haidar et al
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