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From a thin film model for passive suspensions towards the description of osmotic biofilm spreading [PDF]

AIMS Materials Science, 2016, 3(3): 1138-1159, 2016
Biofilms are ubiquitous macro-colonies of bacteria that develop at various interfaces (solid-liquid, solid-gas or liquid-gas). The formation of biofilms starts with the attachment of individual bacteria to an interface, where they proliferate and produce a slimy polymeric matrix - two processes that result in colony growth and spreading.
John, Karin, Thiele, Uwe, Trinschek, Sarah   +2 more
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The impact of antioxidant-ciprofloxacin combinations on the evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms [PDF]

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
The evolution of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in biofilms, driven by mechanisms like oxidative stress, is a major challenge. This study investigates whether antioxidants (AOs) such as N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) and Edaravone (ED) can reduce AMR in ...
Doaa Higazy, Marwa N. Ahmed, Oana Ciofu
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To biofilm or not to biofilm

eLife, 2022
A new model helps to predict under which conditions a species of bacteria will switch to a static lifestyle.
Shravan Pradeep, Paulo E Arratia
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The impacts of biomineralization and oil contamination on the compressive strength of waste plastic-filled mortar

Scientific Reports, 2022
Researchers have made headway against challenges of increasing cement infrastructure and low plastic recycling rates by using waste plastic in cementitious materials.
Kylee Rux, Seth Kane, Michael Espinal, Cecily Ryan, Adrienne Phillips, Chelsea Heveran   +5 more
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Subsurface hydrocarbon degradation strategies in low- and high-sulfate coal seam communities identified with activity-based metagenomics

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2022
Environmentally relevant metagenomes and BONCAT-FACS derived translationally active metagenomes from Powder River Basin coal seams were investigated to elucidate potential genes and functional groups involved in hydrocarbon degradation to methane in coal
Hannah D. Schweitzer, Heidi J. Smith, Elliott P. Barnhart, Luke J. McKay, Robin Gerlach, Alfred B. Cunningham, Rex R. Malmstrom, Danielle Goudeau, Matthew W. Fields   +8 more
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Computational design of antimicrobial active surfaces via automated Bayesian optimization [PDF]

ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2022, 2022
Biofilms pose significant problems for engineers in diverse fields, such as marine science, bioenergy, and biomedicine, where effective biofilm control is a long-term goal. The adhesion and surface mechanics of biofilms play crucial roles in generating and removing biofilm.
arxiv   +1 more source

Elucidation of health risks using metataxonomic and antibiotic resistance profiles of microbes in flood affected waterbodies, Kerala 2018

Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2021
The floods of 2018 caused havoc in the State of Kerala, situated in the extreme south‐west of India, in terms of infrastructure and health. This research article provides the first‐ever assessment of the bacterial diversity and its antibiotic ...
Aparna Shankar, Devika Jagajeedas, Megha Periyappilly Radhakrishnan, Merin Paul, Lekshmi Narendrakumar, Karthika Suryaletha, Velappan Savithri Akhila, Sudha Babu Nair, Sabu Thomas   +8 more
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Single-Cell Infection of Influenza A Virus Using Drop-Based Microfluidics

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Drop-based microfluidics has revolutionized single-cell studies and can be applied toward analyzing tens of thousands to millions of single cells and their products contained within picoliter-sized drops.
Emma Kate Loveday, Humberto S. Sanchez, Mallory M. Thomas, Connie B. Chang   +3 more
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Co‐Delivery of an Amyloid‐Disassembling Polyphenol Cross‐Linked in a Micellar Shell with Core‐Loaded Antibiotics for Balanced Biofilm Dispersal and Killing

Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 32, Issue 51, December 16, 2022., 2022
(‐)‐Epigallocatechin‐3‐O‐gallate (EGCG) is cross‐linked in the shells of self‐targeting micelles through pH‐reversible boronic‐ester binding. Accordingly, EGCG is released and micelles disassemble in acidic biofilms. EGCG released disassemble amyloid fibers in biofilm matrices, yielding balanced bacterial dispersal from biofilms. In mice, this balanced
Shuang Tian, Henny C. van der Mei, Yijin Ren, Henk J. Busscher, Linqi Shi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biofilms [PDF]

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2010
The ability to form biofilms is a universal attribute of bacteria. Biofilms are multicellular communities held together by a self-produced extracellular matrix. The mechanisms that different bacteria employ to form biofilms vary, frequently depending on environmental conditions and specific strain attributes.
Daniel, López, Hera, Vlamakis, Roberto, Kolter   +2 more
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