Staphylococcus Aureus

"Golden armor" offers new way to fight resistant staph infections

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 2nd, 2005

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, have discovered that staph bacteria use a protective golden armor to ward off the immune system, a finding with the potential to lead to new treatments for serious infections now increasingly resistant to standard antibiotics.

The research, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, focused on the major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus and the characteristic yellow-orange color for which it is named ("aureus" is Latin for "golden").

Among the deadliest of all disease-causing organisms, "staph" is...

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