Letkiewicz Sławomir, Łusiak-Szelachowska Marzanna, Międzybrodzki Ryszard, Żaczek Maciej, Weber-Dąbrowska Beata, Górski Andrzej
Phage Therapy Unit, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences (HIIET PAS), 53-114 Wrocław, Poland.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, 42-200 Częstochowa, Poland.
Antibiotics (Basel). 2021 May 25;10(6):627. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics10060627.
Patients with chronic urinary and urogenital multidrug resistant bacterial infections received phage therapy (PT) using intravesical or intravesical and intravaginal phage administration. A single course of PT did not induce significant serum antibody responses against administered phage. Whilst the second cycle of PT caused a significant increase in antibody levels, they nevertheless remained quite low. These data combined with good therapy results achieved in some patients suggest that this mode of PT may be an efficient means of therapy for urogenital infections and a reliable model for a clinical trial of PT.
患有慢性泌尿系统和泌尿生殖系统多重耐药细菌感染的患者接受了噬菌体疗法(PT),采用膀胱内或膀胱内及阴道内噬菌体给药。单一疗程的PT并未诱导出针对所施用噬菌体的显著血清抗体反应。虽然PT的第二个周期导致抗体水平显著升高,但仍然相当低。这些数据与一些患者取得的良好治疗效果相结合,表明这种PT模式可能是治疗泌尿生殖系统感染的有效手段,也是PT临床试验的可靠模型。