Three-dimensional low shear culture of Mycobacterium bovis BCG induces biofilm formation and antimicrobial drug tolerance

Abstract Mycobacteria naturally grow as corded biofilms in liquid media without detergent. Such detergent-free biofilm phenotypes may reflect the growth pattern of bacilli in tuberculous lung lesions. New strategies are required to treat tuberculosis, which is responsible for more deaths each year t...

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Main Authors: Daire Cantillon, Justyna Wroblewska, Ian Cooper, Melanie J. Newport, Simon J. Waddell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00186-8