Tom Patterson Case
In February 2016, the CPT was approached to help develop an emergency phage-based treatment for a patient in the ICU of the UC San Diego Medical Center with an intractable, pan-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection. In collaboration with the US Naval Medical Research Center and the Rohwer lab at San Diego State University, two phage cocktails were produced: one from the CPT laboratory and one from the US Naval Medical Research Center. These cocktails were administered over the following weeks and the patient, Tom Patterson, has since made a full recovery.
This story has been described in the popular press at Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post, Washington Post, Time, and The Guardian. More information can also be seen at UC San Diego Health.
A peer-reviewed publication describing this case is published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (Oct 2017, Vol. 61, No. 10)
