Back in action: Researchers make drug-resistant bacteria vulnerable again (IMAGE)

Scripps Research Institute

Back in action: Researchers make drug-resistant bacteria vulnerable again

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Electron microscope images of drug-resistant E. faecium treated with vancomycin alone or combined with the SagA inhibitor pghi-4. Magenta arrows indicate dead bacteria whose cell walls were left intact.

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