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Biofilms deform soft surfaces and disrupt epithelia

During chronic infections and in microbiota, bacteria predominantly colonize their hosts as multicellular structures called biofilms. A common assumption is that biofilms exclusively interact with their hosts biochemically. However, the contributions of mechanics, while being central to the process...

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Autores principales: Cont, Alice, Rossy, Tamara, Al-Mayyah, Zainebe, Persat, Alexandre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33025904
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.56533