{
  "id": 16084215,
  "title": "Guntur team reports phage therapy success against drug-resistant infections",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/guntur-team-reports-phage-therapy-success-against-drug-resistant",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T18:25:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/guntur-team-reports-phage-therapy-success-against-drug-resistant-infections/article71611169.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Guntur researchers have made promising progress with bacteriophage therapy, successfully treating multidrug-resistant infections. The study, published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases (IJID Regions), also received support from the Sree Padmavathi Venkateswara Foundation. Dr. Kalyan Chakravarthy Koganti, a sepsis and infectious diseases specialist at SHRI Hospital, highlighted the potential benefits for patients unresponsive to conventional antibiotics. One patient, suffering from a persistent knee wound caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, underwent phage therapy and fully recovered, remaining infection-free nine months later. The research team, including Dr. Sutharsan Govindarajan, Dr. Sandeep Nadendla, Dr. Raviteja Yarlagadda, and Dr. Ramakrishna Prasad K., developed bacteriophages and provided clinical support.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [
    "Guntur researchers successfully treated multidrug-resistant infections using bacteriophage therapy.",
    "Research team developed bacteriophages and provided clinical support for the study."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}