Harnessing the gut microbiome to combat antimicrobial resistance: Current strategies and future perspectives

October 2025

Microbiome therapies are a promising avenue of research for tackling antimicrobial resistance.

In this article, Blair Merrick explains how therapies involving the gut microbiome, including faecal microbiota transplant, dietary interventions and phages, can be used to suppress the expansion of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.