New properties of microbes that cause common eye infection discovered
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 04:31
in Biology & Nature
The power of new genomic technology has been used by scientists to discover that microbes that commonly infect the eye have special, previously unknown properties. These properties are predicted to allow the bacterium -- Streptococcus pneumoniae -- to specifically stick to the surface of the eye, grow, and cause damage and inflammation.