British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...

So we end up with Staphylococcus aureus, which means “grape cluster ... themselves into huge communities called ‘biofilms’—colonies of millions of individuals that protect and cling ...

Most of these more rapid methods still require colony isolation of S. aureus prior to sensitivity assessment. In summary, the MRSA-Screen, BBL Crystal MRSA ID and Velogene Rapid MRSA ...

There are about a billion of them in a colony the size of the tip of a ... antibiotic Vancomycin used against the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, the researchers were able to pinpoint single ...