Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Indian TB cases 'can't be cured' ( but DS6A phage could be used)


 DS6A phage (my old idea)

From this scientific work :
" In 1981 Sula et al. reported positive indicators
with a reduction in the observed lesions in the spleen, lungs and livers of guinea pigs following therapy with DS-6A. More recent work demonstrated that phage therapy could have a beneficial effect in guinea pigs with disseminated tuberculosis, but that its action
was considerably less pronounced than that of isoniazid monotherapy."


From this scientific work
"Sula et al. [63] infected guinea pigs with M. tuberculosis and then treated them with subcutaneous injections of three different bacteriophages twice weekly for 10 weeks.
One of these bacteriophages, designated DS-6A, produced an antibacterial effect at least as good as isoniazid."



From this scientific work:
"In addition, the previously isolated phage DS6A, the only one of the 138 phages that does not infect M. smegmatis was sequenced and annotated." 


From this scientific work: