'Viral cocktail saved my daughter's life'

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Experimental cocktail of viruses saved life of teenager who had deadly and seemingly untreatable infection

Why did Isabelle need them?

When she started immunosuppressant drugs to prevent her rejecting the transplant, the infection came back.after transplant, in our experience, all have gone on and died.Isabelle had big, black, festering lesions forming on her skin where the infection was taking hold. The team at Great Ormond Street contacted Prof Graham Hatfull, at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in the US, who had the world's largest collection of phages.

Isabelle went back to school in September, passed her GCSE maths and is now studying for her A-levels.She told the BBC:"It's an incredible thing, it's still working slowly, it's just great being able to do all these things on my own without having any problems."She is still having two infusions of the viral cocktail every day.

"But I think it does encourage future research into phage therapy for some of those resistant bacteria that we're really becoming concerned about."The field developed in Georgia and other countries in the former USSR, but never became mainstream medicine.One antibiotic can work across a broad range of bacterial infections, while phage-therapy requires finding the precise phages that will attack each infection.

 

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vsartorio você é a unica outra pessoa que eu conheço que fica tão animado quanto eu, quando a ciência descobre novos jeitos de matar bactérias 3

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BBCWorld I fink it's great that the virus Nigel Farage's is of some use, at last. innit?

This is a great story, and I am truly happy for the little girl, and the cute puppy, too. We should however keep in mind that experts warn about having too high hopes on experimental therapies, as most of the time do not work...

What an incredible story this is, really top stuff. Must have been a moment of poignancy for georgealagiah presenting this at 6, too. Amazing work by all involved in development of medicines that save our lives.

Fagospatose - Jan Theuninck, 2001

A Virgin had an untreatable infection?

I assume she is on the left. If not, they should have mentioned the side-effects.

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