- Dan, Jennifer M;
- Lehman, Susan M;
- Al-kolla, Rita;
- Penziner, Samuel;
- Afshar, Kamyar;
- Yung, Gordon;
- Golts, Eugene;
- Law, Nancy;
- Logan, Cathy;
- Kovach, Zsuzsanna;
- Mearns, Gill;
- Schooley, Robert T;
- Aslam, Saima;
- Crotty, Shane
Bacteriophage therapy is the use of viruses to kill bacteria for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections. Little is known about the human immune response following phage therapy. We report the development of phage-specific CD4 T cells alongside rising phage-specific immunoglobulin G and neutralizing antibodies in response to adjunctive bacteriophage therapy used to treat a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in a lung transplant recipient. Clinically, treatment was considered a success despite the development phage-specific immune responses.