by Paul Sisson, The San Diego Union-Tribune With several patients in local hospitals struggling to recover, public health officials are warning San Diego doctors to be on the lookout for signs of a deadly infection linked to weight-loss surgeries performed in Tijuana. The county Health and Human Services Agency this week alerted the medical community that four patients have popped up in local...
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Scientists uncover interactions between bacteria that infect the lungs in cystic fibrosis
Substances produced by a harmful bacterium in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients may enhance the growth of other bacteria that, in turn, inhibit the harmful bacterium’s biofilm, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens. Substances produced by a harmful bacterium in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients may enhance the growth of other...
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Targeting bacterial adherence inhibits multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection following burn injury
Abstract Classical antimicrobial drugs target proliferation and therefore place microbes under extreme selective pressure to evolve resistance. Alternative drugs that target bacterial virulence without impacting survival directly offer an attractive solution to this problem, but to date few such molecules have been discovered. We previously discovered a widespread group of bacterial adhesins, termed Multivalent Adhesion...