Researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Georgia Institute of Technology collaborated to study these biofilm ... bacteria that are opportunistic pathogens that could ...

Biofilms of opportunistic pathogens have been found in cold and ... to damage plumbing and cause scaling and corrosion in pipes, which can release metals into the water and actually provide ...

Formation of biofilms by clinically relevant microbial pathogens is at the root of many chronic and recurrent infections. Biofilm-associated infections can be broadly divided into two types ...

which encourages environmental iron bacteria to form biofilms in pipes and the growth of opportunistic pathogens. Some of these bacteria include the emerging threat Burkholderia pseudomallei which ...

marcescens populations subject to predation exhibited several mutations in genes involved in forming biofilms ... for or maintain virulence in opportunistic pathogens. While these results point ...

PGA Key factor for both skin colonization as it contributes to salt resistance, and for survival during biofilm-related ... which has become an opportunistic pathogen, occasionally causing ...

August 2, 2011 1 species of pathogen can produce 2 distinct biofilms by Public Library of SciencePublic Library of Science ...