In this interview from the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show in May 2017, we looked at this amazing story of an individual with a multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection and the use of an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages — viruses that target and consume specific strains of bacteria.

Case study lead author and the primary physician of the patient, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Robert Schooley,MD joined me to share the details of the remarkable story.