An update on last week's Phage Alert

Last week, we sent an urgent alert for phages on behalf of a patient in Finland with ESBL E. coli. The phage hunt was initiated by Mikael Skurnik and his lab at the University of Helsinki (read a nice profile on the Skurnik Lab's phage therapy work here).

In the week since we sent the alert, we've already had 12 additional labs from 9 countries offer to provide or test phages. MANY thanks to all who have contributed to date! The Skurnik group (especially Saija Kiljunen) is working hard to ship out the patient's isolate to these labs, and in some cases shipments have already been received!

Thanks so much to:

• Mikael Skurnik and Saija Kiljunen / University of Helsinki (Finland; Original requesting team)
• Ronen Hazan / Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
• Heejoon Myung / Bacteriophage Bank of Korea (South Korea)
• Adelaide Almeida / University of Aveiro (Portugal)
• Emmanuel Nnadi / Plateau State University (Nigeria)
• Austen Terwilliger / BCM Tailor Labs (USA)
• Julianne Grose / Brigham Young University (USA)
• Christophe Chatain / Vetophage (France)
• Milan Bunata / MB Pharma (Czechia)
• Boris Estrada / Fagenbank (Netherlands)
• Lone Brondsted (Denmark)
• Hedieh Attai / IPATH (USA)
• Daniela Dias / Technophage (Portugal)

Thank you also to the colleagues of the above; we've listed one person from each lab/organization, but of course they are not the only ones key to this effort. We appreciate all who take part in this important work!

There's still time to get involved; reach out to staff@phage.directory if you can help.