My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era

By the time Tom arrived by air ambulance at our local hospital at UC San Diego, his A.baumannii isolate had acquired it, along with 50 other antibiotic resistance genes. Two research teams, one from Texas AM and the other from the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center, embarked on a ‘phage hunt’ and each developed a phage cocktail personalized for Tom’s Iraqibacter, sourcing phage from their laboratories and environmental sources where bacteria are abundant, including sewage. Our goal is to conduct clinical trials on phage therapy, while continuing to help people obtain experimental phage therapy if they have superbug infections that are no longer responding to antibiotics.

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