In this photo released from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, microbiologist Valérie de Crécy-Lagard pauses from her work using a database of bacteria genomes to search for new ways to fight drug-resistant infections–Friday, Dec. 1, 2006. UF researchers have found a new antibacterial target that may one day help stem the skyrocketing number of drug-resistant Staph infections.

(Tom Wright, UF/IFAS)
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