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News About MRSA
Submitted by Paul on Sat, 2007-11-17 02:46.
A HUM-MOLGEN news item dated November 14, 2007 and titled, A New Virulence Mechanism For MRSA, refers to an article in Nature Medicine with information about strains of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
The news item reported that the bacteria utilize peptides to kill neutrophils and red blood cells. This is alarming because the former have a vital immunological function while the latter are quite literally the life blood of humanity.