Sterilizing with fluorescent lights: New surface may kill antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria with fluorescent light
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 13:40
in Health & Medicine
Scientists in New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface that won't harm people or animals but is inhospitable to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- the bacterial cause of an estimated 19,000 deaths and $3-4 billion in health-care costs per year in the US.