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Antibacterial activity of silver-killed bacteria: the "zombies" effect

We report a previously unrecognized mechanism for the prolonged action of biocidal agents, which we denote as the zombies effect: biocidally-killed bacteria are capable of killing living bacteria. The concept is demonstrated by first killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 with silver nitrate and then c...

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Autores principales: Wakshlak, Racheli Ben-Knaz, Pedahzur, Rami, Avnir, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5386105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25906433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep09555