Mouse lungs with acute drug-resistant infection and therapeutic effects of 'living medicine' (IMAGE)

Center for Genomic Regulation

Mouse lungs with acute drug-resistant infection and therapeutic effects of 'living medicine'

Caption

This shows a cross-section of a mouse lung infected with Pseudonomas aeruginosa. The mouse was treated with a version of Mycoplasma pneumoniae that is able to produce therapeutic molecules such as pyocins specifically-designed to combat P. aeruginosa. This therapeutic version of M. pneumoniae acts like a ‘living medicine’ reducing the effects of the infection and preserving air in the alveoli.

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Rocco Mazzolini/CRG

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