This ability may allow the bacteria to persist longer on hospital surfaces and inside medical devices—areas once assumed to ...

However, a newly discovered plastic-eating bacteria could help undo a lot of that damage. The bacteria is a common type of bacterium known as Comamonas testosteroni and it is found in sewage and ...

A common hospital bacterium can eat plastic in sutures and stents, making infections harder to control and medical gear ...

A dangerous hospital superbug has been found to digest plastic—specifically the kind used in some sutures, stents and ...

Notably, the bacteria is known as a major cause of catheter-related urinary tract infections (UTIs) and ventilator-associated pneumonia—both of which are associated with plastic-based medical ...

A dangerous hospital superbug, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, can now digest medical plastic like sutures and implants, ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom identified an enzyme, which they called Pap1, in a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...