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New Technologies for Studying Biofilms.
Review in Microbiology spectrum, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Nutritional Immunity in Wound Infection: Unveiling the Role of Dietary Elements in Host-Pathogen Interaction.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Synergistic Activity of Vancomycin and Gentamicin AgainstMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- Use of analytical strategies to understand spatial chemical variation in bacterial surface communities.Journal of bacteriology · 2025Review
- Holistic monitoring of Campylobacter jejuni biofilms with NanoLuc bioluminescence.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Nanoarchitectonics for Advancing Bone Graft Technology: Integration of Silver Nanoparticles Against Bacteria and Fungi.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Association Between Biofilm Formation and Structure and Antibiotic Resistance inInfection and drug resistance · 2024Article
- Improved mini-TnApplied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
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- SpoT-mediated NapA upregulation promotes oxidative stress-inducedAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2023Article
- Defensins ofInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Use of epifluorescence widefield deconvolution microscopy for imaging and three-dimensional rendering ofMethods in microbiology · 2023Article
- Biomass-specific rates as key performance indicators: A nitrogen balancing method for biofilm-based electrochemical conversion.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Imaging biofilms using fluorescenceFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Review
- A novel time-lapse imaging method for studying developing bacterial biofilms.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Transcriptome Analysis of the Response of MatureAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Glucose-Induced Biofilm Formation in Bacillus thuringiensis KPWP1 is Associated with Increased Cell Surface Hydrophobicity and Increased Production of Exopolymeric Substances.Current microbiology · 2021Article
- The Two Weapons against Bacterial Biofilms: Detection and Treatment.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Bacteria have traditionally been studied as single-cell organisms. In laboratory settings, aerobic bacteria are usually cultured in aerated flasks, where the cells are considered essentially homogenous. However, in many natural environments, bacteria and other microorganisms grow in mixed communities, often associated with surfaces. Biofilms are comprised of surface-associated microorganisms, their extracellular matrix material, and environmental chemicals that have adsorbed to the bacteria or their matrix material. While this definition of a biofilm is fairly simple, biofilms are complex and dynamic. Our understanding of the activities of individual biofilm cells and whole biofilm systems has developed rapidly, due in part to advances in molecular, analytical, and imaging tools and the miniaturization of tools designed to characterize biofilms at the enzyme level, cellular level, and systems level.
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