ORONO, Maine, Oct. 15 -- University of Maine issued the following news release:
Isabel Dauphinais of Brunswick, Maine, spent her summer helping scientists identify new treatments for Legionnaires' disease, a severe form of pneumonia, in a lab at Stanford University.
Legionnaires' disease, which affects about 10,000 people annually in the United States, is caused by a pathogenic bacterium known as Legionella pneumophila, which Dauphinais, a University of Maine junior and Honors College student, researched during an internship.
When the team Dauphinais worked with discovered a pathway that was critical to the bacterium's survival, she investigated whether it could be exploited to develop treatments.
"I was isolating the pathway's rate-lim...