Oral bacteria 'battle royale' helps explain how a pathogen causes hospital infections

(Forsyth Institute) In a paper publishing later this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, researchers from the Forsyth Institute and colleagues describe their discovery that three closely related species of bacteria belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae outlived all other oral bacteria in long-term starvation or 'doomsday' experiment.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news