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Bacterial Therapy

Pharmacological Therapy

Bacterial therapy is the therapeutic use of bacteria to treat disease. Bacterial therapeutics are living medicines that may be wild type bacteria or bacteria genetically engineered to carry therapeutic properties, delivered by injection, as phage therapeutics, or as vehicles for treatment, diagnosis or imaging alongside existing tools and approaches.

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Bacterial therapy (Wikipedia)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_therapy, lead section
    Bacterial therapy is the therapeutic use of bacteria to treat diseases.
  • In Group: Immunologic and Biologic Therapy, Introduction
    Bacterial therapy is the therapeutic use of bacteria to treat diseases.
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