Re:Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
by nootropicat on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:35PM
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I always wondered, resistance is an energetic cost as it tends to disappear without constant selection pressure. Why not infect someone with the non-resistant strain, let it outcompete the resistant strain inside the body and then kill it with antibiotics?
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Re:Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
by thombat on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:02AM
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In general the patient is only being treated because the infectious agent is doing some kind of damage (makes them sad/sick/dead...) So the fear is that before the non-resistant strain has supplanted the resistant one the patient has become too (sad/sick/dead)