Reinventing the fight against bacteria, one phage at a time.

Subcommittee on Phage susceptibility testing Lytic bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect and kill bacteria. Phage therapy is emerging as a promising adjuvant to traditional antimicrobials for combatting difficult-to-treat bacterial infections. However, implementation of phage-based treatments requires standardized methods for testing their efficacy to select the optimal therapeutic phages. To address this, EUCAST has established the EUCAST Phage Susceptibility Testing (PST) Subcommittee Remit of the PST Subcommittee : - Developing  standardized reference methods  to ensure uniform and reproducible  in vitro  phage susceptibility testing across laboratories worldwide, - Establishing  criteria for interpretation of PST results , providing clinicians and researchers with evidence-based guidelines to assess phage efficacy and monitor phage activity. - Promoting  quality assurance  by implementing stringent  quality control  measures ...