薬学および新興医薬品ジャーナル

Using plural phages to treat Multiple Drug Resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii

Tirasak Pasharawipas

Acinetobacter baumannii (AB) is one of the important multiple drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infection with environmental contamination especially in hospitals. AB is the major fatal cause of acquired hospital bacterial infection. With the limitation to develop new antibiotic drug, nowadays, phage therapy is reignited as an alternative strategy to fight against MDR bacterium. One of the main problems concerning phage therapy is that bacterium can develop to be a lysogen which becomes resistant to the same phage treatment. This lysogenic mechanism is regulated when bacterium host is infected by temperate phage which unfortunately seems to be the major kind of isolated phages by various researchers. It is seldom to isolate virulent phage which can keep re-infecting the bacterial host by the phage