New potential treatment method could help provide a solution to threat posed by rising anti-microbial resistance
A method of training the immune system to fight drug-resistant infections could be a more effective way to help people who are vulnerable to infection, Irish researchers have found.
Scientists at the Translational Medicine Institute at Trinity College Dublin targeted the immune cells instead of the bacteria to help fight infections using a process called ‘trained immunity’.
Rather than focusing on antibiotics, this approach aims to boost immune function to help clear infections more effectively.
The team trained macrophages with the immune protein…