Randy Holmes-Farley
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This is at the center of my point for posting this thread:
Indiscriminate use of chemicals are creating super resistant bacteria. FIND ANOTHER WAY!
That was my approach in the company I was in, but since this thread is about phages, folks should recognize that bacteria will also mutate to avoid phages. There are ways to try to get around that just like with antibiotics, but phages are not without these same issues:
A major barrier to successful phage therapy is that bacteria readily evolve phage resistance.