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>>jasonc+(OP)
Prevention vs treatment, indeed! I anticipate that as antibiotics become less effective that table manners and food handling hygiene will have a revival. For example we’ll go back to proper butter knives rather than everyone using their bread knife in the communal butter dish.

>>gumby+E01
Related: First bacteriophage therapies are entering human trials and gaining steam.

Antibiotics will likely become obsolete when you can target bacteria without the bystander side effects they have on our cells. They are the perfect antibacterial smart weapon really.

https://medcitynews.com/2020/01/adaptive-phage-gets-10-from-...

>>dfsego+kc1
IF you can identify your specific bacterium and the phage that kills it before the disease kills you.

Antibiotics will continue to be effective precisely because they are broad spectrum. A doctor can hit you with an antibiotic before they know exactly what you have.

I am always happy to see new tools in medicine. However, I suspect phages are most going to be used initially in persistent, chronic, antibiotic resistant infections where everything else has failed.