Metabolic Adaptation Supports Persistent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Pulmonary Infection.

CONCLUSIONS: MRSA undergoes substantial metabolic adaptation to the human airway to cause chronic pulmonary infection, and selected metabolites may be useful therapeutically to inhibit infection. This article is open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. PMID: 30742488 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Respiratory Care - February 11, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Gabryszewski SJ, Wong Fok Lung T, Annavajhala MK, Tomlinson KL, Riquelme SA, Khan IN, Noguera LP, Wickersham M, Zhao A, Mulenos AM, Peaper D, Koff JL, Uhlemann AC, Prince A Tags: Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol Source Type: research