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Typhoid-causing bacteria are increasingly resistant to antibiotics

Typhoid-causing bacteria are increasingly resistant to antibiotics

© Microbewriter / Wikimedia Commons/CC BY SA 4.0 Typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness that is usually treated with antibiotics. However, there is a high probability that many strains of the bacteria that cause this disease can no longer be eliminated with these drugs, because they have become resistant to antibiotics. Typhoid fever: what is …

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Israeli company tests fecal bacteria pills against cancer

Israeli company tests fecal bacteria pills against cancer

Twelve Israeli cancer patients will soon start treatment with pills containing faecal bacteria, as part of a clinical trial to assess the effect of the new therapy on the overall efficacy of immunotherapy. Scientists from Rehovot-based pharmaceutical company Biomica studied data on the bacterial balance of faeces in a large number of cancer patients. They …

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