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Discovered in WWI, bacterial viruses may be our allies in a post-antibiotic age

  • Written by Jeremy J. Barr, Lecturer in School of Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Monash University
imageMany in the Western Front contracted haemorrhagic dysentery.Wellcome Library, London

As we again reflect on the sacrifices our Anzac soldiers, nurses and doctors made during the first world war, another centenary goes by unnoticed by most Australians.

It celebrates a scientific discovery made behind the Western Front, one that might soon affect the...

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