ABSTRACT

United States During the 1920s to 1940s ..................................388 14.3. Factors Contributing to the Decline of Interest in Phage Therapy

During Early Phage Therapy Research.....................................................393 14.3.1. Credibility Problems Caused by a Lack of Quality Control

and of Properly Controlled Studies............................................393 14.3.2. Conflicting Reports about the Efficacy of Phage Therapy ........395 14.3.3. Development of Antimicrobials: Broad-Spectrum

Antibiotics vs. Narrow-Spectrum Phages ..................................396 14.4. Phage Therapy in the Era of Antibiotics...................................................397