Phage Therapy

Question 1

What type of phages would we want to use with phage therapy?

Answer 1

Virulent. Don’t want the phage to integrate and possibly make the infection worse

Question 2

When do we use phage therapy?

Answer 2

As a last resort when every antibiotic has failed

Question 3

What do we do if we only have a lysogenic phage that will attack the pathogen?

Answer 3

Try to mutate it to force it down the lytic cycle, like knocking out the repressor