Scientists devise method to prevent deadly hospital infections without antibiotics

Photo: Richard Kaner. Photo credit: Reed Hutchinson / UCLA. Article by Stuart Wolpert. UCLA Newsroom – May 19, 2022.

Novel surface treatment developed at UCLA stops microbes from adhering to medical devices like catheters and stents

A hospital or medical clinic might be the last place you’d expect to pick up a nasty infection, but approximately 1.7 million Americans do each year, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths from infection-related complications and roughly $30 billion in direct medical costs. […]

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