Often mistaken for mold, this gross gunk is actually a bacteria called Serratia marcescens — and it can trigger major health problems if left to thrive. “This bacteria loves moist places and ...

Edward Nevin, 75, a retired Pacific Gas and Electric Co. worker recovering from a prostate operation, had succumbed to an infection with Serratia marcescens that attacked his heart valves.

Believing it to be a fungus, he named it Serratia in honor of Italian physicist Serafino Serrati, and marcescens because of the pigment's tendency to fade or decay rapidly. Disturbingly ...

The flashy Serratia marcescens was used as the model organism in a simulated ... Stanford University Hospital doctors culturing the patients’ urine on petri dishes found an unusual and unexpected ...

Those pink rings and streaks are a biofilm formed by colonies of a bacterium called Serratia marcescens, found worldwide. Like most bacteria, it’s harmless — unless you’re in extremely poor ...

Perhaps Serratia marcescens, which blooms brilliant cherry red, or Streptomyces coelicolor that grows sky blue. Her canvas is a Petri dish full of a jelly-like substance called agar, which the ...

“That is a bacteria called Serratia marcescens,” Weston says in the clip. “The reason that that looks pink and like mold is because the bacteria is secreting a substance called biofilm.

The two most common bacteria causing pink shower mold are called Serratia marcescens and Aureobasidium pullulans. These bacteria produce a pigment, known as prodigiosin, that ranges in hue from ...

There have also been reports since January that samples of the fog have been tested in an unnamed laboratory and found to contain high levels of the bacteria Serratia Marcescens. No link is ever ...