Introduction: The persistence of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) in drinking water plumbing ... Methods: Drinking water and biofilm samples were collected from hospitals and private ...

The rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a current threat, and plumbers will be involved in mitigating the associated ...

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

Nanoplastics are everywhere. These fragments are so tiny they can accumulate on bacteria and be taken up by plant roots; they're in our food, our water, and our bodies. Scientists don't know the full ...

The findings, published in PLOS Biology, provide fundamental insights into the mechanisms underlying how pathogens in biofilms spread. Most bacteria spend much of their lives in multicellular ...

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 ...

Among the clusters are high levels of opportunistic pathogens, microbes such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella that do not typically cause harm but can do so when the microbiota as a whole is out ...