Abstract

With antibiotic resistance on the rise and expected to be a major health problem in the coming years [1], we are looking for alternative ways to treat bacterial infectious diseases. This work is in the scope of phage therapy, i.e. the use of therapeutic highly specific bacterial viruses called bacteriophages. As with the antibiotic susceptibility test (antibiogram), a phage susceptibility test (phagogram) that allows rapid and reliable testing of phage collections to identify the optimal phage(s) to administer to patients is highly desirable. Accordingly, we show here preliminary results of a new method to perform a phagogram with phages trapped on an optical chip.

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