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Michael Gilmore, who organized the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance and whose lab in May announced it had decoded the genome of the 12 known VRSA strains in the United States, said the group is taking a diversified approach to meet the challenge of antibiotic resistance.

Battling a bacterial threat

Researchers join forces, explore strategies against drug-resistant bugs

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DateJanuary 2, 2013July 9, 2019

In this PET-CT image of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis, images A and B show a molecular model of how the PET reporter (orange structure with colored spheres) binds to the target, the bacterial enzyme staphylocoagulase (violet). Image B is rotated 90 degrees relative to image A. CT (images C and D) and PET-CT (images E and F) show the location of the radiolabeled prothrombin in vegetations around the aortic valve of a mouse heart. Images G-I show location of the PET agent in aortas of mice with (G-H) and without (I-J) S. aureus endocarditis.

Detecting heart-valve infection

Noninvasive imaging probe reveals presence of S. aureus endocarditis

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DateAugust 21, 2011July 19, 2019