Question 21585 — pharmacy and medications

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Mr. François-Michel Lambert draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the importance of the fight against antibiotic resistance. The massive use of antibiotics, both in humans and in intensive animal breeding, has favored the development of antibiotic-resistant strains. Occasional at first, this phenomenon has become widespread in France and around the world. Doctors no longer have a solution to fight against bacteriological infections, thus placing them in an increasingly frequent therapeutic impasse. Indeed, bacteria are now resistant to “last resort” antibiotics, suggesting a post-antibiotic world where the slightest infection could cause the death of the patient. Faced with this challenge, phage therapy consisting of using phages, viruses that naturally prey on bacteria, seems to provide a solution. Two hospital clinical research programs will soon be carried out in France. They will be very useful in providing evidence of the effectiveness of phage therapy, data which is currently lacking. However, if at the end of these programs it turns out that phage therapy was not conclusive, he would like to know France's other solutions to combat antibiotic resistance.

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