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Implanted medical devices: Rocky Mountain Laboratories researchers look at biofilm infections

December 13, 2010 /

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Researchers affiliated with Rocky Mountain Laboratories have identified the mechanism causing staph infection to grow on and spread from catheters and other implanted medical devices.

Michael Otto, a Bethesda, Md., researcher tied to the Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis at RML, said the potentially life-threatening infections have always proved notoriously difficult to treat.

By SEPP JANNOTTA – Ravalli Republic

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