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Viruses genetically engineered to kill bacteria rescue girl with antibiotic-resistant infection

Viruses genetically engineered to kill bacteria rescue girl with antibiotic-resistant infection One week after Helen Spencer’s 15-year-old cystic fibrosis patient had a double lung transplant in September 2017, the incision wound turned bright red. For half her life, Isabelle Carnell had been battling a drug-resistant infection of Mycobacterium abscessus, and now it was rapidly spreading, erupting

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