ACD Pharma

Growing resistance against antibiotics is quickly becoming the greatest threat to human health. The use of antibiotics in food production is partly to blame. With that backdrop, it was a small sensation when ACD Pharma in 2018 got the approval for a phage product that efficiently removes a harmful bacteria and outbreaks of a disease which has antibiotics as its only cure. Bacteriophages, or phages, are the world most numerous organisms. Its only function is to attack and kill their specific target bacteria, and in the process multiply. They are natural predators of bacteria, and Natures own biocontrol tools, efficiently ensuring that no single bacterium becomes too dominant in an environment. In other words, bacteriophage-based products do not affect the commensal microflora of the patient or aquaculture farm water, which is a common side-effect of broad-range antibacterials. Our bacteriophage therapy project started in 2011 and has seen promising results of phage therapy against ...