Volume 61, no. 10, e00954-17, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00954-17. Materials and Methods, 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence: “Phages provided by the Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD) of the Naval Medical Research Center (AB-Navy1, AB-Navy4, AB-Navy71, AB-Navy97, and AbTP31) were isolated from various environmental samples by using routine isolation techniques, as previously described (9)” should read “Phages provided by the Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD) of the Naval Medical Research Center (AB-Navy1, AB-Navy4, AB-Navy97, and AbTP31) were isolated from various environmental samples by using routine isolation techniques, as previously described (9), except for one phage (AB-Navy71, also known as phage vB_Ab-M-G7, DSM strain no. 25639), which was purchased from Liebniz Institute DSMZ (Germany).”

Widespread antibiotic use in clinical medicine and the livestock industry has contributed to the global spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens, including Acinetobacter baumannii We report on a method used to produce a personalized bacteriophage-based therapeutic treatment for a 68-year-old diabetic patient with necrotizing pancreatitis complicated by an MDR A. baumannii infection. Despite multiple antibiotic courses and efforts at percutaneous drainage of a pancreatic pseudocyst, the patient deteriorated over a 4-month period. In the absence of effective antibiotics, two laboratories identified nine different bacteriophages with lytic activity for an A. baumannii isolate from the patient. Administration of these bacteriophages intravenously and percutaneously into the abscess cavities was associated with reversal of the patient's downward clinical trajectory, clearance of the A. baumannii infection, and a return to health. The outcome of this case suggests that the methods described here for the production of bacteriophage therapeutics could be applied to similar cases and that more concerted efforts to investigate the use of therapeutic bacteriophages for MDR bacterial infections are warranted.