Modern Tendencies of the Use and Development of Drugs of Bacteriophages

Abstract

The article discusses the main uses of bacteriophages as an alternative or supplement to antibiotic therapy. The authors characterize the drugs of bacteriophages and perfume and cosmetic products containing bacteriophages presented on the pharmaceutical market of the Russian Federation. Prospects and algorithms for the extemporal manufacture of medicinal forms with bacteriophages for personalized therapy, developed in countries of Europe, USA, China, Russian Federation are considered. The analysis of scientific publications on the main international databases shows the interest of the developers in the problem of the creation of new bacteriophages preparations with stable titer in different medicinal forms for routes of medication administration. One of the problems of pharmaceutical development of such products is the insufficient regulatory framework. It was noted that for the first time in the State Pharmacopoeia of the Russian Federation a general pharmacopaedic article Bacteriophages medicinal-prophylactic and private pharmacopaedic articles about the main bacteriophages and their cocktails produced by the Russian industry were introduced. It has been shown that expansion of the range of medicinal forms and ways of introducing bacteriophages, extemporal manufacture of effective and stable preparations along with their industrial production an attainable task.