How Staph Infections Start In Your Nose

Monday, December 31, 2012 - 14:10 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have identified a mechanism by which the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) colonizes our nasal passages, showing for the first time that a protein located on the bacterial surface called clumping factor B (ClfB) has high affinity for the skin protein loricrin. read more

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