Staphylococcus aureus: a hibernating bacteria!

Bruxelles Woluwe

This is what researchers from the UCLouvain Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI) have managed to demonstrate.

Why doesn’t Staphylococcus aureus respond to antibiotics? And why, when treatment appears to have worked and is stopped, are infection relapses frequent? To escape antibiotics and the body’s defences, the bacterium hibernates within our cells while waiting for the storm to pass!

The golden pigment is a virulence factor because it allows the bacterium to resist certain means of defence in our body,’ says LDRI researcher Prof. Françoise Van Bambeke.

https://uclouvain.be/en/sciencetoday/news/staphylococcus-aureus-a-hibernating-bacteria.html

 

 

 

Published on May 12, 2020