Phage therapy has been limited by the following. (1) The success rate is too low for routine use and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. (2) Current strategies of routine phage characterization do not sufficiently improve the success rate of phage therapy. (3)...
Félix d’Hérelle announced that he had isolated a microorganism resistant to Shigella, which he called these antagonists "phages" [23]. However, interest in phage therapy waned after the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928
Therefore, attention has been drawn to bacteriophage therapy as alternative bacteriolytic agents to synthetic antimicrobials. Recently, two commercial bacteriophage cocktails that battle Listeriosis, Listex™ P100 (Micreos) and ListShield (Intralytix), have received FDA approval (Shuren, 2006). However...
However, the phage therapy market faces challenges such asregulatory hurdles, public perception, and scientific uncertainties. Regulatory bodies, particularly the FDA and EMA, are still working on defining clear guidelines for the approval of phag...
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sample. Phage therapy has been used for over a century in countries such as Russia and Georgia, where it is still used today to treat bacterial infections. However, phage therapy has not been widely adopted in Western medicine, primarily due to a lack ofclinical trialsand regulatory approval....
This review comprehensively outlines current strategies for the engineering of phages, delineates the principal types of phages utilized as nanocarriers in drug and gene delivery, and explores the application of phage-based delivery systems in disease therapy. Additionally, an incisive analysis is ...
Patterson, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine, became the first known person in the United States to successfully undergointravenous phage therapyfor a multidrug resistant bacterial infection, with emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....
Despite all of the documented cases of patients being successfully treated with phages, the introduction of phage therapy in Western countries still faces major obstacles, due especially to regulatory issues [37], such as the very strict guidelines of the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration), ...
Approval of Clinical Trials Several clinical trials have been conducted in humans that use phage as an alternative therapy, all of which were based on isolated phages often in the form of a cocktail. In 2009, phase I/II of a clinical trial were approved by the Central Office for Research ...