{"id":237354,"date":"2022-09-05T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=237354"},"modified":"2022-09-05T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:22:29","slug":"polish-scientists-to-investigate-effectiveness-of-phage-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/polish-scientists-to-investigate-effectiveness-of-phage-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish scientists to investigate effectiveness of phage therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verifying the safety and efficacy of phage therapy in the treatment of chronic sinusitis is the aim of a project led by the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). A consortium comprising the Institute and the Medical University of Wroc\u0142aw has received a grant from the Medical Research Agency for non-commercial clinical research into phage therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers took as their goal to test bacteriophages in the treatment of chronic sinusitis. This condition affects a large number of people and is often resistant to treatment, especially with antibiotics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent data published in Progress Against Antimicrobial Resistance Has Slipped, which appeared in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, indicate that drug resistance is increasing significantly, reaching 80% in the case of the dangerous bacterium Acinetobacter, for example.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clinical trials of phage therapy have so far been unsuccessful. Attempts have already been made by various foreign consortia, including those from Western Europe, the USA and Australia. A consortium of Polish research units will receive more than PLN 15 million for the research.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verifying the safety and efficacy of phage therapy in the treatment of chronic sinusitis is the aim of a project led by the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). A consortium comprising the Institute and the Medical University of Wroc\u0142aw has received a grant from the Medical Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}