Bacteriophage as a therapeutic agent for dysentery

Abstract

The question of phage therapy arises with the discovery of the phenomenon of bacteriophagy. The phenomenon of lysis of bacterial cultures, discovered by D'Herelle when he studied the process of recovery of dysentery patients, made it possible for the French scientist to ascribe a dominant role to the phage in this process and to use it for the treatment of patients with dysentery. With this method of treatment, he received brilliant results on seven patients: after 24 hours there was an improvement in all clinical symptoms and the disappearance of dysentery bacilli from the feces.

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