New defense discovered against common hospital-acquired infection

Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have discovered a key mechanism used by intestinal cells to defend themselves against one of the world's most common hospital-acquired bacterial infections -- a mechanism they think they can exploit to produce a therapy to protect against the effects of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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