Microbial Disease

Researchers Discover How To Disarm Bacteria

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 17th, 1999

In a major breakthrough in the treatment and prevention of infectious disease, University of California - Santa Barbara researchers have found a way to disarm microbial pathogens with the discovery of a "cloaking" device, effectively stopping them in their tracks in animal studies.

The findings, published in the May 7, 1999, issue of the journal Science, will be applied toward the development of a new generation of vaccines and antibiotics, according to the researchers.

Michael J. Mahan, associate professor of biology, and three colleagues - graduate student Douglas M. Heithoff and professors Robert L. Sinsheimer and David A. Low - report that they...

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