Stress relaxation analysis facilitates a quantitative approach towards antimicrobial penetration into biofilms.

Biofilm-related infections can develop everywhere in the human body and are rarely cleared by the host immune system. Moreover, biofilms are often tolerant to antimicrobials, due to a combination of inherent properties of bacteria in their adhering, biofilm mode of growth and poor physical penetrati...

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Main Authors: Yan He, Brandon W Peterson, Marije A Jongsma, Yijin Ren, Prashant K Sharma, Henk J Busscher, Henny C van der Mei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3664570?pdf=render