WSU researchers have identified several "vampiric" bacteria
Siena Glenn, a Washington State University Ph.D. student uses a high-powered microscope. Glenn, working with Assistant Professor Arden Baylink and colleagues, has published research showing that some of the world's deadliest bacteria seek out and eat serum, the liquid part of human blood.
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Assistant Professor Arden Baylink working in a lab at Washington State University. Baylink and others have been working on research into bacteria that may help develop treatments for infections.
A petri dish containing salmonella bacteria.
PULLMAN — Some of the world’s deadliest bacteria seek out and feed on human blood, a newly-discovered phenomenon researchers are calling “bacterial vampirism.”
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