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Published online 26 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040223-6
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Vitamin B2 may help treat sepsis
Vitamin's anti-bacterial effect fights blood poisoning in mice
Vitamin B2 could be used to help treat patients with sepsis, a mouse study suggests. The treatment boosts survival rates in rodents with the fatal form of blood poisoning.
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