A novel target for therapeutics against Staph infection

Friday, November 28, 2008 - 13:49 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the Texas A and M Health Science Centre Institute of Biosciences and Technology, and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered how a bacterial pathogen interacts with the blood coagulation protein fibrinogen to cause methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, a finding that could aid in developing therapeutics against the potentially deadly disease. Their work appears 28 November in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens...

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