New Leads in the Case Against Drug-Resistant Biofilms Left Behind by Medical Devices, Brown University Study
ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2011) — Films of bacteria that form around foreign materials in the body can be very difficult to defeat with drugs, but research led by Brown University biologists has identified a couple proteins that play a key role in building these "biofilms." This pair could prove to be a very important target for developing new antibiotics to fight infections.