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Travel Nurse With Resistant Strep? Penicillin Makes a Comeback

Posted by jason on June 7th, 2008 under Healthcare Industry
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Recent discoveries about the nature and structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae could help doctors resume the of Penicillin against this and other resistant strains. International research has shown  the role of a MerM, one of Streptococcus’s key proteins, in producing structures in the bacterium’s cell walls that have been enhancing its resistance to Penicillin. MurM allows [...]