From Los Angeles, at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology
To stop bacteria from making you ill, you may not have to kill them. Just don’t let them stick around, suggest Marjorie M. Cowan of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and her colleagues.
They’ve been studying the common potato, which people have used for centuries to combat skin infections.
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