Bacterial Slime Helps Cause Serious Disease
Sunday, May 4, 2008 - 19:28
in Health & Medicine
Leptospirosis is a serious but neglected emerging disease that infects humans through contaminated water. Now research published in the May issue of the journal Microbiology shows for the first time how bacteria that cause the disease survive in the environment.
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