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A new diagnosis of Mycobacterium abscessus

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I had to read it a couple of times about treating it with a virus. Do you know what virus, (maybe a dumb question)

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@nlee1954 It's called Phage Therapy. All I know is that Companies are creating phage banks. The virus or phage would be specific to the exact genetic makeup of the NTM strain. Sounds like there's a lot of NTM variance if a "bank" of these phages need to be collected and stored. I did listen to a youtube presentation and the founder of one of the phage banks spoke about looking in the environment for these natural occurring phages.