IN 1908, Much reported that certain strains of Staphylococcus had the property of coagulating oxalated or citrated human blood plasma. This is nowadays considered as one of the most characteristic ...

OBSERVATIONS of the natural history of epidemic staphylococcal disease in newborn nurseries and studies of the transmission of staphylococci to newborn infants have clearly shown that the sources of ...

Golden staph (Staphylococcus aureus) is an opportunistic pathogenic bacterium that is capable of adapting to highly variable environments. It can be found in the nostrils of 25 to 30% of the ...

It's as simple as A, T, G, C. Northwestern University scientists have exploited the Watson-Crick base pairing of DNA to provide a defensive tool that could be used to fight the spread of antibiotic ...

MUCH has been written in recent years about the role that the excessive use of antibiotics has played in establishing an antibiotic-resistant flora in the nasopharynx of the patients and personnel of ...

CLEVELAND - Menachem Shoham, PhD, associate professor and researcher in the department of biochemistry at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has identified new anti-pathogenic ...

Prof. Olaf Schneewind, one of the world’s leading authorities on the pathogenic bacteria that cause human disease, died May 26 after a long battle with cancer. He was 57 years old. He had been working ...