Sunday, 26 May 2013

New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection Identified

A potent new class of compounds capable of curbing the bacteria that cause staph infections has been discovered by scientists. Writing online in the iJournal of the American Chemical Society/i, a group led by University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry Professor Helen Blackwell describes agents that effectively interfere with the "quorum sensing" behavior of iStaphylococcus aureus/i, a bacterium at the root of a host of human infections ranging ...

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