A team of researchers has discovered ‘bacterial vampires’ that are extremely attracted to human blood.
According to the scientists, this particular type of bacteria can cause fatal infections.
The team has highlighted how these bacteria are attracted to serum which is the liquid portion of the blood as it provides nutrients and energy.
The team has highlighted how these bacteria are attracted to serum which is the liquid portion of the blood as it provides nutrients and energy.
This ‘deadly attraction’ can be problematic for people with irritable bowel disease (IBD) as intestinal bleeding can offer gut bacteria a route into the bloodstream.
Bacteria infecting the bloodstream can be lethal. We learned some of the bacteria that most commonly cause bloodstream infections actually sense a chemical in human blood and swim toward it
Strains of three bacteria known to cause fatal infections, belonging to the species Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli, and Citrobacter koseri are attracted to the human blood serum.
As a part of their study, the scientists investigated bacteria from the family Enterobacteriaceae