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The development of alternative approaches is essential and novel therapies that combine exogenous and host-mediated antimicrobial action are promising. In this work, we demonstrate that asymmetric phosphatidylserine\/phosphatidic acid (PS\/PA) liposomes administrated both in prophylactic and therapeutic treatments, induced a reduction in the bacterial burden both in wild-type and\n                    <jats:italic>cftr<\/jats:italic>\n                    -loss-of-function (\n                    <jats:italic>cftr<\/jats:italic>\n                    -LOF) zebrafish embryos infected with\n                    <jats:italic>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/jats:italic>\n                    (\n                    <jats:italic>Pa<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) PAO1 strain (PAO1). These effects are elicited through the enhancement of phagocytic activity of macrophages. Moreover, the combined use of liposomes and a phage-cocktail (CK\u03a6), already validated as a PAO1 \u201ceater\u201d, improves the antimicrobial effects of single treatments, and it is effective also against CK\u03a6-resistant bacteria. We also address the translational potential of the research, by evaluating the safety of CK\u03a6 and PS\/PA liposomes administrations in\n                    <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>\n                    model of human bronchial epithelial cells, carrying the homozygous F508del-\n                    <jats:italic>CFTR<\/jats:italic>\n                    mutation, and in THP-1 cells differentiated into a macrophage-like phenotype with pharmacologically inhibited CFTR. 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