Patent 9068159 was granted and assigned to Micreos on June, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
There is provided a bacteriophage capable of lysing a P. acnes bacterium and incapable of lysing a bacterium which is not P. acnes, and which is incapable of sustaining lysogeny in a bacterium. There is also provided a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a bacteriophage.