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

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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