Pluribiosis and the never-ending microgeohistories
Language
en
Chapitre d'ouvrage
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With Microbes, With Microbes. 2021-10-05p. 247-267
Mattering Press
English Abstract
In this chapter, using the specific case of bacteriophage viruses (literally: bacteria-eating viruses) and their bacterial hosts, I explore how taking into account this relational dimension of biological entities can ...Read more >
In this chapter, using the specific case of bacteriophage viruses (literally: bacteria-eating viruses) and their bacterial hosts, I explore how taking into account this relational dimension of biological entities can allow us to imagine new therapeutic assemblages. Since their discovery at the beginning of the twentieth century, phages have indeed been used to treat bacterial infections. Although they were neglected in the second half of the twentieth century, notably due to the discovery and then massive production of antibiotics in the 1940s, there has been growing interest in their use since the early 2000s, due to the rise in bacterial resistance to antibiotics.Read less <
English Keywords
bacterial resistance
antibiotics
phages
bacteriophage viruses
phage therapy
ANR Project
Des virus pour soigner: le difficile développement d'une innovation biomédicale contre-intuitive - ANR-18-CE36-0001
Origin
Hal imported