Recently rediscovered in the western world, phage therapy against bacterial infections is already under investigation in human clinical trials. At the same time, researchers from the JCU Turtle Health Research Facility tested the approach on sea turtles as well. The purpose was to replace antibiotics, commonly administered during turtles' recovery.

A 15-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis who suffered from an antibiotic-resistant mycobacterium infection has been treated thanks to a "modern" therapeutic approach, phage therapy. Not so modern actually, given that the first experiments date back to the 20s of the last century. But it has only recently been rediscovered and proposed as a valid alternative to antibiotic therapy, especially in the case of resistant bacteria, which are going to become more and more threatening.