Boo Shan Tseng studies bacterial communities called biofilms. Bacterial biofilms impact everything from industry to agriculture to medicine, and are everywhere around (and in) us. The assistant ...

One of the most troublesome bacterial strains is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA infections can lead to death, predominantly in hospitalized, debilitated patients.

The ability to determine what genes individual bacteria are using can give powerful new insights into bacterial interactions, virulence, stress responses, the ability to resist antibiotics, the ...

Innovation and Research Institute of Hebei University of Technology in Shijiazhuang, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, P. R. China ...

Lack of efficacy as add-on therapy to vancomycin to treat deep-seated MRSA infections in Phase II trial (development terminated) Lipoteichoic acid † Bacteria cell wall component Humanized ...

Scientists believe the protein works by disrupting the “biofilms” that bacteria often form within the body. Biofilms are groups of microorganisms that stick to one another and, often ...

Department of Infectious Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a type of bacteria and can cause infections.While ... is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, said Chuck Gerba, a professor of virology at the University ...

Despite the name, MRSA can be resistant to more than just methicillin, and that can cause serious problems. Though it can start off as swollen, painful, red bumps on the skin where the bacteria ...