Bacteriophage Therapy 7/2003 

In response to the article in our last issue on a potential cancer serum made from a parasitic organism that afflicts rabbits, Scott Grady passed along the following information on bacteriophages, bacteria-eating viruses that could offer a remedy to the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance.

Bacteriophages (also called “phages”) were first discovered by Felix d’Herelle of the Pasteur Institute in France 1917. The word bacteriophage is derived from bacterium, plus the Greek phagein, meaning to eat....