Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial ...

Zapping the skin with electricity could stop bacteria that live there harmlessly from entering the body and causing blood ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Staphylococcus epidermidisis an extremely versatile commensal species, which has become an opportunistic pathogen ...

Electric currents can affect bacteria at levels too small to harm (or even hurt) humans, which gave medical researchers an ...

Staphylococcus epidermidis is generally a relatively benign resident of human skin and mucosal surfaces. However, over recent decades, the increased use of invasive devices and implants ...

Imperceptible low-level electric current applied through a skin patch caused a nearly 10 times reduction in amounts of ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego report that they have made an exciting ...

Imperceptible low-level electric current applied through a skin patch caused a nearly 10 times reduction in amounts of Staphylococcus epidermidis, a common bacterium found on human skin ...

The acidity of the media will cause the pH indicator, phenol red, to turn yellow. Staphylococcus aureus is capable of fermenting mannitol (left side of left plate) while Staphylococcus epidermidis is ...