Dr. Ran Nir-Paz, an infectious diseases specialist at the Hadassah Medical Organization, talks to ContagionLive about his work with Hadassah Hebrew University’s Dr. Ronen Hazan using phages, viruses that kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria, to fight the global scourge of superbugs.
Speaking to the medical website’s senior editor, John Parkison, Dr. Nir-Paz shares insights into the future of phage therapy and undertaking the largest-ever study of a single virus, or phage, killing a strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.