Author: Nima Soleimani
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Bacteria hate this one viral trick! Bacteriophages against antibiotic resistance.
Before the advent of modern medicine, bacterial infections ravaged human society. A lack of treatment options available rendered infections such as bacterial pneumonia deadly. However, an accidental discovery would lead to the development of bug-fighting medications known as antibiotics. In 1928, Physician Alexander Fleming was studying the bacterial genus Staphylococcus by cultivating it in petri…