Communication breakdown: New strategy may be valid alternative to traditional antibiotics

Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 14:49 in Health & Medicine

Certainly there is strength in numbers, but only if those numbers can effectively communicate with one another. Now, a new study finds that administration of a novel small molecule which effectively disrupts a key bacterial communication process protects an animal host from infection.

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