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Formulated product for phage therapy consisting of more than one type of bacterial virus.
| Cocktails are simply mixtures of ingredients and Phage Cocktails are simply mixtures of different types of phages. |
Phage cocktails in principle are able to better able to impact different bacterial strains than non-cocktails (a.k.a., individual monophages) and/or are better able to prevent bacterial evolution of phage resistance.
Prêt-à-porter phage formulated products typically would be cocktails.
See also spectrum of activity as well as breadth of activity and depth of activity.
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