Medicine · Recorded milestone
Engineered-phage patient treatment report
Recorded year2019
A published compassionate-use patient treatment uses engineered bacteriophages against a resistant bacterial infection.
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- Recombinant DNARecorded · 1973enables
- DNA sequencingRecorded · 1977influences
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- Engineered bacteriophages for treatment of a patient with disseminated drug-resistant M. abscessus 2019
Published 2019 compassionate-use case with engineered phages; case evidence does not establish a generally approved therapy.
Dedrick and colleagues
Record reviewed 2026-10-18