EU SCIENTISTS BREAK THROUGH OVER SALMONELLA RESEARCH
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLBRITISH and German scientists have made a breakthrough in developing Europe's most common food and animal based pathogen - salmonella - which is increasingly resistant to standard antibiotics.Britain's Institute of Food Research and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, of Germany, have discovered how salmonella bacteria defends itself in hostile environments (such as stomachs and intestines) by continually inserting outer membrane proteins (OMPs) into its cell walls. The discovery has been hailed by the European Commission, which said: ...
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