Could bacteriophages play a part in poultry farming?

Many Kenyan poultry farmers still opt to use antibiotics to treat infections. Studies show however, there is a high prevalence of resistance to clinically relevant antibiotics for example. Bacteriophages could aid in alleviating antibiotic resistance in poultry farming in Africa. Africa’s population continues to boom, from 476 million in 1980 to 1.4 billion today to a projected 2.5 billion by 2050. More than 4 out of 5 of those new Africans will be city-dwellers. This has resulted in a deep