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<p>The Department and the Wellcome Trust sponsored a strategic pipeline briefing into
alternatives to antibiotics in 2015. The briefing reviewed the feasibility and potential
clinical impact of alternatives to antibiotics, including bacteriophages, and considered
approaches that were most likely to deliver new treatments in the next 10 years. The
briefing concluded that bacteriophages were possible therapeutics, but too few were
being progressed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to invest in research into
new and alternative treatments. While there has been increased investment and unprecedented
levels of research collaboration on antimicrobial resistance, there are still relatively
few projects looking at the use of bacteriophages.</p>
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