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  • Team discovers how to fight tough-to-treat bacterial infection

    Nov 27, 2023 8:30 am by Diana YatesDiscovery
    Graduate student Morgan Gugger works with P. aeruginosa in the Hergenrother lab. Photo by Fred Zwicky

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    • Graduate student Morgan Gugger works with P. aeruginosa in the Hergenrother lab. Photo by Fred Zwicky

    A U of I research team has discovered the physical and chemical rules for overcoming the defenses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium responsible for tens of thousands of hospital infections every year in the U.S.