When disease-causing bacteria establish a biofilm on hospital equipment, it can be impossible to sterilize the devices, raising infection rates and necessitating expensive replacements. Now, scientists have found an enzyme that shuts down the signals bacteria use to form a biofilm. The findings could one day help make biofilm-related complications a distant memory.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150824163001.htm
Off switch for biofilm formation discovered
24 agosto 2015
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