Scientists honor Frank Zappa, naming human zit-causing bacterium now infecting vineyards

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 17:02 in Biology & Nature

In a striking case of pathogen transfer involving the bacterium responsible for human acne, P. acnes, authors Campisano, et. al., report in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution on a new type of P. acnes which exploits grapevines, dubbing it P. acnes type Zappae. Th

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