Which of the following about antibiotics and the medical use of bacteriophages is false?
A) Bacteriophages have been used to treat dysentery, cholera, and bubonic plague.
B) Bacteriophage therapy continued in the United States following World War II, while the practice largely ended in the Soviet Union.
C) Evolution of antibiotic resistance, resulting in the loss of effectiveness of antibiotics.
D) Evolution among bacteriophages is creating a pool of new strains to be used when target pathogens develop resistance.
E) Bacteriophages are providing a weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Bacteriophage therapy actually continued in parts of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after World War II, not in the United States, where antibiotics became the primary mode of bacterial infection treatment.

Which of the Following About Antibiotics and the Medical Use