The bright-yellow pigment that tints the bacteria that cause staph infections is pivotal to the microbe’s virulence, a new study has found.
COLOR ME PAINFUL. Yellow Staphylococcus aureus (left dish) causes gaping infections when swabbed onto open wounds in mice (left hip), but the unpigmented strain (right dish) doesn’t. V.
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