A trojan horse made of lipids - techniques for liposomal encapsulation of therapeutic bacteriophages

Dr. A. NiethDoctor Anita Nieth is working in Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. During Phage Therapy Congress 2016 which will be held in Paris next June 2-3, she will give a presentation about a trojan horse made of lipids - techniques for liposomal encapsulation of therapeutic bacteriophages.

According to dr Nieth, the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria presents a severe challenge to medicine and public health. While bacteriophage therapy is a promising alternative to traditional antibiotics, the general inability of bacteriophages to penetrate eukaryotic cells limits their use against resistant bacteria causing intracellular diseases like tuberculosis. Bacterial vectors show some promise in carrying therapeutic bacteriophages into cells but also bring a number of risks like an overload of bacterial antigens or the acquisition of virulence genes from the pathogen.


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