Right now, antibiotics are a point-and-shoot, frontline treatment for things, and phage therapy is a sort of "treatment of last resort" bespoke therapy.
Are phage super-useful for cases like the one in the article, where you have something super-resistant like Acinetobacter? Yes.
Is there much hope, near term, that they'll work as a drop-in replacement for the antibiotics we're losing? No.
Right now, antibiotics are a point-and-shoot, frontline treatment for things, and phage therapy is a sort of "treatment of last resort" bespoke therapy.
Are phage super-useful for cases like the one in the article, where you have something super-resistant like Acinetobacter? Yes.
Is there much hope, near term, that they'll work as a drop-in replacement for the antibiotics we're losing? No.