Biofilm, City of Microbes
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Biofilm, city of microbes.
In most natural environments, association with a surface in a structure known as a biofilm is the prevailing microbial lifestyle. Surface association is an efficient means of lingering in a favorable microenvironment rather than being swept away by the current. Taken to the extreme, we may view the planktonic or free-swimming microbial phase primarily as a mechanism for translocation from one s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.10.2675-2679.2000