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Published online 18 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070115-10
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Research highlights nastier form of MRSA
Toxin-laden bacterium makes for a killer in the community.
Researchers have unpicked why a particularly nasty form of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which can strike down otherwise healthy victims outside of the hospital, is quite so vicious.
The results, says Gabriela Bowden, an immunologist at Texas A&M University in Houston and an author on the study, could be used to derive new therapies to combat the troublesome bug.
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