A biofilm is a community of microbes on a surface that is encased in a polymer coating. Bacteria that grow attached to surfaces rather than floating in a liquid are called sessile. Most bacteria ...

Biofilms are slimy layers of microorganisms that stick to wet surfaces. They may cause up to 80 percent of infections.

Biofilms: Discovery of a new mechanism of virus propagation Date: February 8, 2010 Source: CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange) Summary: Researchers have shown for the first time that certain ...

Biofilms are slimy, glue-like membranes that are produced by microbes in order to colonize surfaces. They protect microbes from the body's immune system and increase their resistance to antibiotics.

Microplastics provide an excellent bacterial breeding ground that may be contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a new study says.

Biofilms can harbor clusters of specific pathogens or a combination of them. In production facilities, food contact surfaces are hotspots on which to focus biofilm sanitation efforts, because of ...

A team of researchers with members from the U.S., Germany and Sweden has discovered that the cellulose found in bacterial biofilms differs from the cellulose in plants. In their paper published in ...

Biofilms harboring multi-antibiotic-resistant organisms are found at unexpected levels on dry hospital surfaces and could contribute to the risk of infection transmission, according to the results ...

The biofilms were either treated with no disinfectant, hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2), or a mixture of H 2 O 2 and peroxyacetic acid (PAA). They then counted the number of colony-forming bacteria ...

Gene expression changed. So did the makeup of the biofilm’s sticky extracellular matrix and the physical arrangement of its cells. Dietrich and colleagues published their results in PLOS Biology in ...

Typically, beneficial bacteria do not form biofilms naturally. But scientists have now identified synthetic polymers that encourage their growth. genprowebdirectory ...

Microplastics provide an excellent bacterial breeding ground that may be contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a new study says.