Sugar on bacteria surface serves as base for a web of resistance

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 08:56 in Health & Medicine

The bacteria responsible for chronic infections in cystic fibrosis patients use one of the sugars on the germs' surface to start building a structure that helps the microbes resist efforts to kill them, new research shows...

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