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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2020

Phage Therapy in the Year 2035.

Jean-Paul Pirnay

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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64citing papers in PubMed
9.0field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

64 citing papers in PubMed, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Zinc oxide-bacteriophage synergistic combination for dual-mode antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  2. Characterization and therapeutic potential of two Kayvirus phages against methicillin-resistant S. aureus in a rat myositis model.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  8. Advances in phage therapy forFrontiers in microbiology · 2026
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  20. Phagetherapy updates: New frontiers against antibiotic resistance.European journal of microbiology & immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jean-Paul PirnayLaboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Queen Astrid Military Hospital · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of multidrug resistant bacteria in both community- and hospital-acquired infections is recognized as a major public health threat. Phage therapy is increasingly mediatized and researched as an additional tool for combatting antibiotic resistant infections. However, phages exhibit a number of properties that differ from antibiotics and hamper their development as pharmaceutical products and their application in therapy. This paper advocates a paradigm shift in the development and application of infectious disease therapeutics to cater for personalized phage therapy, which could be realized by the year 2035. More specifically, it presents a sustainable and ethical supply chain of instant synthetic phages, based on a community effort, supported and steered by public health organizations, and managed by a platform combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger (DL) Technology.

Indexed as

antibiotic resistanceantimicrobial resistanceartificial intelligencedistributed ledger technologyinfectious diseasesmachine learningphage therapysynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID32582107
PMCPMC7284012
OpenAlexW3032939067

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