title: The potential of phage therapy in bacterial infections of the eye.
abstract: Antibiotic resistance has become a major health challenge which poses a significant threat, also in ophthalmology. For example, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus may cause dramatic complications, including bilateral blindness as a consequence of orbital cellulitis and panophthalmitis. This menace has provoked a greatly revived interest in phage therapy. In recent years, a number of papers have been published suggesting its efficacy in animal and human bacterial infections, but none of them addressed the phage potential in ophthalmology, which is the subject of this mini review.
authors.affiliation: L. Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland. agorski@ikp.pl
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Górski
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Targońska
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Borysowski
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Weber-Dabrowska
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001435:Bacteriophages; D001691:Biological Therapy / Q000639:trends*; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D015818:Eye Infections, Bacterial / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans