Non-surface Attached Bacterial Aggregates: A Ubiquitous Third Lifestyle
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...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.557035/full |