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Kazaryan’s faith in phage therapy is shared by a small but equally passionate group of physicians and researchers in Poland. Wroclaw, a Silesian city of gothic churches and cobblestone streets, is home to the L. Hirszfeld Institute for Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the only institute outside the former Soviet Union that regularly provides therapeutic phages for patients. Housed in a 1970s-style concrete-and-glass building in the green outskirts of Wroclaw, the Hirszfeld Institute is known throughout Western Europe for its research on stem cells, bone marrow transplants, and on the development and selection of T cells, a type of white blood cell. Phage therapy makes up a small but growing segment of its work.
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Kuchment, A. (2012). In Poland: Phages for Diabetes?. In: The Forgotten Cure. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0251-0_6
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