Pros And Cons Of Bacteriophages

The debate of whether bacteriophages could replace antibiotics is one of the many health issues to be explored in this essay. Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically target bacteria in your body to destroy it. Many scientists believe that bacteriophages will replace antibiotics in the fight against bacterial/diseases, although ideal, scientist do not know the long term effects of using this mechanism of defense. More research is needed and thus the push for bacteriophage usage may be reluctant in the field of medicine. There are many articles that support bacteriophages and other articles that believe antibiotics are a better solution to get rid of bacteria. This essay will cover the pros and cons of bacteriophages possibly replacing antibiotics.
Phage Therapy are special treatment/medicine that involves a unique virus called Bacteriophages which will attack bacteria cells through the lytic cycle to obstruct their repeating bacterial growth. Bacteriophages are shaped of a capsid with a head-tail shape. They are shaped
Antibiotics and bacteriophages have their pros and cons of each other. However, it’s possible that bacteriophages could replace antibiotics. I found that bacteriophages would have a higher chance of getting rid of the bacteria than antibiotics because it doesn’t take many doses of for phage therapy compared to taking antibiotics every time you feel discomfort in our body. Bacteriophages do not cause secondary resistance which I found interesting because if you were to abuse of the use of the same antibiotics the bacterium can be immune to it causing more trouble in the body. Once the bacterium becomes immune to the previous antibiotics, then you would have to find another antibiotic that will stop the bacterial metabolism. Therefore, I believe that bacteriophages would be a safer treatment than