Biomarker discovered for pathogen that can blind or kill healthy young people

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 17:43 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have have discovered several biomarkers that can accurately identify hypervirulent K. pneumoniae, a pathogen that infects completely healthy people and can cause blindness in one day and flesh-eating infections, brain abscesses and death in just a few days.

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