Perspective: The viscoelastic properties of biofilm infections and mechanical interactions with phagocytic immune cells

Perspective: The viscoelastic properties of biofilm infections and mechanical interactions with phagocytic immune cells

Biofilms are viscoelastic materials that are a prominent public health problem and a cause of most chronic bacterial infections, in large part due to their resistance to clearance by the immune system. Viscoelastic materials combine both solid-like and fluid-like mechanics, and the viscoelastic prop...

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Main Authors: Marilyn Wells, Rebecca Schneider, Bikash Bhattarai, Hailey Currie, Bella Chavez, Gordon Christopher, Kendra Rumbaugh, Vernita Gordon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
biofilm
viscoelasticity
rheology
phagocytosis
neutrophil
immune system
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1102199/full

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