Conventional Treatment of Burn Wound Infections versus Phage Therapy

• DOI: 10.30699/ijmm.16.3.186
• Publication Date: 2022-04-05T17:44:56Z
• Authors: Bahareh Lashtoo A...; ; Mohammad Yousef A...; ; Willem B. van Lee...; ; Ali Mojtahedi; ; Sima Kazemi; ; Pezhman Karami
• Keywords: Phage therapy

Wound infections are the primary cause of sepsis in burn wound patients and increase burn-related morbidity mortality.Gram-negative Gram-positive bacteria induce wounds.Conventional antimicrobial therapy is recognized as most successful therapeutic intervention to combat wounds.Unfortunately, resistance could be catastrophic lead treatment failure.Burn need topical treatment.Phages an alternative for antibiotics can used a monotherapy with antibiotic-resistant pathogens or applied combination antibiotic therapy.Phages species-specific bacterial natural viruses.Worldwide, many phage-producing companies emerging.However, not countries implement phage their patient management.Clinical trials needed convince health care system those that do have confidence infectious diseases.This study reviewed several aspects patients.