Staphylococcus aureus a common and important cause of disease in animals including bovine mastitis, tick pyemia (enzootic staphylococcosis), abscesses, dermatitis, furunculosis, meningitis, osteomyelitis, food poisoning, wound suppuration, and bumblefoot in poultry. read more
have extracted teichoic acid from the bacteria's cell wall and used it to protect groups of mice from subsequent massive doses of virulent staph organisms. New hope for control of staph infections Researchers work to distinguish deadly staph bacteria from harmless strains. read more