ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2020
Non-surface Attached Bacterial Aggregates: A Ubiquitous Third Lifestyle.
Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.
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Abstract
Bacteria are now generally believed to adopt two main lifestyles: planktonic individuals, or surface-attached biofilms. However, in recent years medical microbiologists started to stress that suspended bacterial aggregates are a major form of bacterial communities in chronic infection sites. Despite sharing many similarities with surface-attached biofilms and are thus generally defined as biofilm-like aggregates, these non-attached clumps of cells
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