Love Me Love My Phages

Georgian biomedical preparations to be used by a US owned company; bacteriophage-based antibacterial products from world-renowned Eliava Institute to be used by US owned Phage Therapy Center in Mexico.

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire. May 18, 2005 pNA.

(From Chemical Business NewsBase - Press Release)

The George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology (Eliava), Republic of Georgia, and Phage International Inc, Los Altos, CA, have signed an agreement whereby Eliava will become the supplier of bacteriophages for Phage International's new Phage Therapy Center (PTC) in Tijuana Mexico. This is the first commercial use of phages in a medical clinic in the western world and marks a starting point in the promising collaboration between a scientific research centre in the Republic of Georgia and a US owned company. The Institute will test bacterial cultures from PTC patients for PIO-phage susceptibility, produce the appropriate phage and deliver it to PTC to eradicate the bacteria in suffering patients. Bacteriophages represent a viable and effective alternative for fighting drug-resistant infections. Phage International Inc, a primary enabler of phage therapy in the western world, is in the process of opening a number of clinics.

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