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by gostsamo 1606 days ago
complex. it is made per bacteria type as far as I know and it does not scale like a chemical compound.
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which is good, then you can't "preventively" use it on cattle, pigs, chicken etc. like they do with antibiotics, causing resistant strains to develop. I imagine phage therapy would only be an additional "line of defense" against resistant bacteria, similar to the "reserve antibiotics" (which are however more and more widely used, including for animals, despite their "reserve" status).