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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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Effect of surface roughness, biofilm coverage and biofilm structure on the electrochemical efficiency of microbial cathodes [PDF]

, 2011
Biofilms of Geobacter sulfurreducens were formed under chronoamperometry at −0.5 V and −0.6 V vs. Ag/AgCl on stainless steel cathodes and tested for fumarate reduction.
Bergel, Alain, Délia, Marie-Line, Pons, Liz   +2 more
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Integration of a pure moving bed biofilm reactor process into a large micro-polluted water treatment plant

Water Science and Technology, 2022
The pure-MBBR process was applied to remove ammonia in a full-scale micro-polluted-water treatment plant with a daily treatment capacity of 260 × 104 m3/d, Guangdong, China.
Wenjie Han, Jiazhong Zhou, Deyang Sheng, Di Wu, Haoran Zhou, Zhongqi Yang, Jianwen Yin, Chao Xia, Yujiao Kan, Junguo He   +9 more
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Sessile Legionella pneumophila is able to grow on surfaces and generate structured monospecies biofilms [PDF]

, 2010
Currently, models for studying Legionella pneumophila biofilm formation rely on multi-species biofilms with low reproducibility or on growth in rich medium, where planktonic growth is unavoidable.
Bergé, Mathieu, Dubourg, Karine, Pécastaings, Sophie, Roques, Christine   +3 more
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Pneumococcal biofilms.

International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, 2009
Over 60% of bacterial infections (and up to 80% of chronic infections) are currently considered to involve microbial growth in biofilms. This peculiar form of life poses an array of problems in human clinical practice, from infections associated with the implant of prosthetic devices and dental plaque formation to diseases such as cystic fibrosis ...
Moscoso, Miriam, García, Ernesto, López, Rubens   +2 more
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Identification of small molecules that interfere with c-di-GMP signaling and induce dispersal of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021
Microbial biofilms are involved in a number of infections that cannot be cured, as microbes in biofilms resist host immune defenses and antibiotic therapies.
Jens Bo Andersen, Louise Dahl Hultqvist, Charlotte Uldahl Jansen, Tim Holm Jakobsen, Martin Nilsson, Morten Rybtke, Jesper Uhd, Blaine Gabriel Fritz, Roland Seifert, Jens Berthelsen, Thomas Eiland Nielsen, Katrine Qvortrup, Michael Givskov, Tim Tolker-Nielsen   +13 more
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A Novel Conserved Protein in Streptococcus agalactiae, BvaP, Is Important for Vaginal Colonization and Biofilm Formation

mSphere, 2022
Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus [GBS]) infections in neonates are often fatal and strongly associated with maternal GBS vaginal colonization. Here, we investigated the role of an uncharacterized protein, BvaP, in GBS vaginal colonization.
Lamar S. Thomas, Laura C. Cook
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Potentiating hypoxic microenvironment for antibiotic activation by photodynamic therapy to combat bacterial biofilm infections

Nature Communications, 2021
Traditional antibiotic treatment has limited efficacy for the drug-tolerant bacteria present in biofilms because of their unique metabolic conditions in the biofilm infection microenvironment.
Weijun Xiu, Ling Wan, Kaili Yang, Xiao Li, Lihui Yuwen, Heng Dong, Y. Mou, Dongliang Yang, Lianhui Wang   +8 more
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Combating biofilms [PDF]

FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, 2012
Biofilms are complex microbial communities consisting of microcolonies embedded in a matrix of self-produced polymer substances. Biofilm cells show much greater resistance to environmental challenges including antimicrobial agents than their free-living counterparts.
Yang, Liang, Liu, Yang, Wu, Hong, Song, Zhijun, Høiby, Niels, Molin, Søren, Givskov, Michael   +6 more
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Development and validation of a chemostat gut model to study both planktonic and biofilm modes of growth of Clostridium difficile and human microbiota [PDF]

, 2014
Copyright: 2014 Crowther et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source ...
Baines, Simon D., Chilton, Caroline H., Crowther, Grace S., Freeman, Jane, Nicholson, Scott, Todhunter, Sharie L., Wilcox, Mark H.   +6 more
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