Vitalis In The News
What news portals and magazines are saying about us
What started as a personal journey in 2016 has now become a movement to help as many people as possible combat their antibiotic-resistant infections. For our own experience of overcoming a multi-drug resistant infection, as well as for our work to bring phage therapy to India, we have received attention and recognition from national and international media.
“I anticipate substantial global growth in phage therapy” - Pranav Johri
Pranav Johri, Founder, Vitalis Phage Therapy and a Fellow of the Society of Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, is a pioneer in establishing a company based on phage therapy. In a brief discussion, Johri reveals what led him to founding Vitalis Phage Therapy and his outlook to the future of bacteriophage therapy in India.
Bacteriophage therapy: an age-old answer to combat antibiotic resistance
In the summer of 2016, Pranav Johri, then 33 years old, started experiencing groin pain. He assumed he had pulled a muscle. However, six weeks later he had developed other symptoms, including chills and a fever of over 100 degrees.
When using a virus to fight a superbug is the best approach
In the summer of 2016 as Delhi sweltered, Pranav Johri was feeling the chills. The 33-year-old businessman had felt a pulling pain in his groin region a few weeks ago that only grew worse, coupled with a low fever and persistent aches. He was soon diagnosed with Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis along with…
Indian healthcare welcomes initiative to curb antibiotic resistance
In an endeavour to address the need to limit the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Vitalis Phage Therapy has recently been launched in India. The initiative has been developed by Pranav Johri, who underwent phage therapy himself to successfully treat his antibiotic-resistant infections…
A century-old cure may help ward off superbugs, the 'global climate change of health'
Pranav Johri completed five rounds of antibiotics to treat a persistent prostate problem in his early 30s, but his case flummoxed doctors because the medicine seemed to make him worse. “My entire life had become so limited,” says the…
Improving access to phage therapy in India
Pranav didn’t learn about phages or phage therapy until a couple of years ago. His story starts in 2015, in his early thirties, when he was dealing with a five-month long recurrent respiratory infection. He would take antibiotics, it would go away for a while, and then return a few weeks later…
How I defied the doctors' prognosis and found treatment for an 'incurable' superbug
I was only 33, and my doctor had asked me to learn to live with the debilitating pain in my pelvic region and constant low-grade fever. There were two options before me – listen to him or find my own treatment…
Phage therapy gaining grounds in the age of Antibiotic Resistance
The British bacteriologist Ernest Hankin is said to be the first scientist known to have observed the action of bacteriophages in the waters of Ganga and Yamuna in 1896 which rendered it the properties of ‘Amrit’, a curative agent in many infectious …
Phage to rescue
Like many hospitals across the world, Vellore-based Christian Medical College (CMC) too is grappling with infectious bacteria (Supebugs) that resists anti-biotics. The doctors at the CMC hospitals have decided to try Phage therapy, wherein nature’s anti-biotics — Bacteriophages are used to infect and …
Introducing phage therapy to India
Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, organised a guest lecture by Pranav and Apurva Johri, founders of Vitalis Phage therapy, here, on Friday. Pranav Johri is the first Indian who underwent the phage therapy from Nov 2016- March 2018. Phage therapy is a treatment for people suffering from chronic or …
Introducing phage therapy to India
Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, organised a guest lecture by Pranav and Apurva Johri, founders of Vitalis Phage therapy, here, on Friday. Pranav Johri is the first Indian who underwent the phage therapy from Nov 2016- March 2018. Phage therapy is a treatment for people suffering from chronic or…
India’s First Known Treated Patient Opens Doors: Lecture At PU’s Microbiology Deptt
Phage therapy, actively practised as a first line of treatment for bacterial infections among humans in some east European countries like Georgia and Poland for decades, along with some other alternative treatments being actively pursued by…
Some Viruses Kill Bacteria
What are exactly bacteriophages? Brouns explains that like Covid-19, a bacteriophage is a virus. However, a bacteriophage is not a sphere with suction cups, but rather resembles a moonlander. It has an angular head filled with DNA (or RNA), a long neck…
Bacteriophage sensitivity testing initiative to ease access to phage therapy in India
People suffering from bacterial infections will now get easy access to bacteriophage susceptibility testing “done locally” in India, with a diagnostic laboratory and a phage therapy centre joining…
Bacteriophage Sensitivity Testing Initiative To Ease Access To Phage Therapy In India
People suffering from bacterial infections will now get easy access to bacteriophage susceptibility testing “done locally” in India, with a diagnostic laboratory and a phage therapy centre joining hands to provide the facility. Bacteriophages, or simply “phages”…