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.

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