It is in the run down hospital of Tbilissi in Georgia that a potential solution might be found against the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. Professor Guram Gvasalia and his team continue to use and develop a technique first discovered in 1910 and used in the West until the widescale development of antibiotics. The Soviet empire however continued to treat it's population with phages and the microbiology centre in Tbilissi produced a tonne a day to cope with the demand.
Treatment consists of identifying the strain of bacteria infecting the patient and injecting the phage, or bacteriophage...