Kristin and Jane are joined by Professor Jonathan Iredell, ID and Microbiology Consultant at Westmead and Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Sydney Medical School.

We discuss:

• What is a bacteriophage?

• How can they help in a battle against antimicrobial resistance?

• How do we use them? What's the dose and route of administration?

• Which infections can they be used for?

• How can they be regulated?

• What adverse effects can we expect from phage therapy?

Further reading:

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug : A Memoir by Stephanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson, available at the Book Depository

Professor Iredell's research page at Sydney Uni

A review of phage therapy published this year by Patey and colleagues (Full text available)