Phage therapy could prove as an effective alternative to antibiotics. Phage is similar to antibiotics in the sense that it can destroy a bacterial infection but differs in the fact that the bacteria cannot develop resistance. As bacteria attempt to develop resistance to phage the phage counters by also evolving and mutating [5]. Another benefit of phage therapy is that once a phage has been applied to a bacterial infection it won’t stop until every single bacterium in the colony have been eliminated [5]. There is also an economic advantage to phage therapy and that is the low cost associated with the growth and purification of the phage, which is considerably less antibiotic production costs
Phage therapy could prove as an effective alternative to antibiotics. Phage is similar to antibiotics in the sense that it can destroy a bacterial infection but differs in the fact that the bacteria cannot develop resistance. As bacteria attempt to develop resistance to phage the phage counters by also evolving and mutating [5]. Another benefit of phage therapy is that once a phage has been applied to a bacterial infection it won’t stop until every single bacterium in the colony have been eliminated [5]. There is also an economic advantage to phage therapy and that is the low cost associated with the growth and purification of the phage, which is considerably less antibiotic production costs