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Sue,
Yes the whole phage research is very intriguing. I’ve been in touch w Dr Hatful at U Penn who is doing much of the research to see if I could send my MAC in for a phage matchup as Dr Falkinham has sent all the Virginia MAC phages they’ve found to him. But it looked too complicated to do right now.

UCSan Diego actually has established a whole Phage library of the various phages to be used in the future for NTM. But I believe right now they aren’t even doing any phage trials. Grrrr….
Or did you hear differently today ??L

Have you read the story of the one guy that was almost dying w lung disease and they saved him with phage IV therapy.? If not, I’ll find the article for you.
It’s very exciting and makes sense as the best way to treat NTMs.

Did they discuss the biofilm problem?
Thanks

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There was a reference to a phage trial, possibly at Medical University of South Carolina? I think the way to find out would be through ntminfo.org

Yes, biofilm was touched on but the flew through everything in 3 hours, so not a lot of depth.
There will be a recording available, it usually takes them a couple weeks to come out.
Sue