Bacteria-Killing Viruses: The Answer to Superbugs?

Phage therapy uses viruses called bacteriophages to destroy specific bacteria. Scientists are hopeful that they could become a tool to fight antibiotic-resistant germs. In this video, Patrick Kelly guides you through the history of phage therapy's development. ☠️NONE OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE USED AS MEDICAL ADVICE OR OPINION. IT IS FOR GENERAL EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT☠️ 🔗 L I N K S 🔗 📱Instagram:   / patkellyteaches   🐦Twitter:   / patkellyteaches   💰Patreon:   / corporis   🔬Old channel:    / corporis   📚My favorite books https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w... 🔑 P A T R O N S 🔑 Oxytocin Tier: Mike W | Joanne K | Jim C Jr. | Sal F | Jody O | Ansel K Growth Hormone Tier: Dane M | Brendan P | Brandon K | Kathy K | Pia K | Joe B | Mindi F | Ansel K | Michael G | Brian B | Eileen H | Jonathan G | Waffles the Dog | Brian T | Brian H | Michael R | Karen S | Sarah B | Robin B | Jacob S | Hyeon-Seo | Drake W | Pranav M | Paul | Lucy F | Lucie C | Huynhy | elnombre91 | Alcedo | Magmania | Josef K | Kyle K | Dabrick B | Robert M | Kristal C 📜 S O U R C E S 📜 The Good Virus by Tom Ireland https://www.amazon.com/Good-Virus-Ama... The Perfect Predator by Stephanie Strathdee https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Predat... Annotated script here:   / phage-video-is-97650618   Bacteriophage Therapy of Bacterial Infections: The Rediscovered Frontier (2021) https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/14/1/34 Standardized bacteriophage purification for personalized phage therapy (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... Phage Therapy: A Renewed Approach to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (2019) https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microb... Phage Cocktail Development for Bacteriophage Therapy (2021) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Hankin paper (1896) https://archive.org/details/annalesde... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1... A Brief History of Shigella (2018) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... An Early History of Phage Therapy in the United States (2021) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Bacteriophage prehistory (2011) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... The virus in the rivers: histories and antibiotic afterlives of the bacteriophage at the sangam in Allahabad (2020) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do... Bacteriophage Therapy (2001) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... The Third Age of Phage (2005) https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology... An invisible microbe that is antagonistic to the dysentery bacillus (1917) by F. d’Herelle — translation of original French https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Le bacteriophage (1921) by D’Herelle https://archive.org/details/lebactrio... Bacteriophage and Staph skin infections (1921) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt... Cholera and Plague in India: The Bacteriophage Inquiry of 1927-1936 https://web.archive.org/web/201708111... The Adoption and Survival of Bacteriophage Therapy in the USSR (2018) https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/articl... The prospect for bacteriophage therapy in Western medicine (2003) https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd11... An interview with Elizabeth Kutter https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... IMAGES Portrait of Steffanie A. Strathdee by Scott Lafee for Triton Magazine. CC-BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffan... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Intralytix Headquarters by Rayford Payne. CC-BY-SA 4.0 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...    • Cholera bacteria can survive antibiotics f...   💻 C O N T A C T 💻 patkellyteaches [at] gmail.com ⌛T I M E S T A M P S ⌛ 0:00 intro 0:48 What is a Phage 2:00 Ernest Hankin 5:18 Fredrick Twort 6:50 Felix d’Herelle 16:52 Phage Therapy in the Soviet Union 22:19 Phage Therapy in the USA 25:16 Challenges to phage therapy 28:09 Why are people hopeful? #historyofmedicine #medicalhistory