Short Communication
Samriti Arora
Abstract
The therapy of using bacteriophages may sound new, but actually it’s not. These were first discovered twice at the beginning of the 20th century and were often used against infections in some places of Russia and Eastern Europe. These were first isolated in 1917 by d’Herelle, from the feces of convalescing dysentery patients at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The viral nature of bacteriophages was recognized in 1940 for the first time after the advent of the electron microscope [1]. But as early as in 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin as an antibiotic and further rise of antibiotics abandoned most of the phages, particularly in the west, making antibiotics as one of the greatest achievements in the history of medicine as antibiotics showed the true definition of what treatment should be and how it should work [2].