Death and transfiguration in static Staphylococcus epidermidis cultures.

The overwhelming majority of bacteria live in slime embedded microbial communities termed biofilms, which are typically adherent to a surface. However, when several Staphylococcus epidermidis strains were cultivated in static liquid cultures, macroscopic aggregates were seen floating within the brot...

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Main Authors: Christoph Schaudinn, Paul Stoodley, Luanne Hall-Stoodley, Amita Gorur, Jonathan Remis, Siva Wu, Manfred Auer, Stefan Hertwig, Debbie Guerrero-Given, Fen Ze Hu, Garth D Ehrlich, John William Costerton, Douglas H Robinson, Paul Webster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4070908?pdf=render