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▪ Abstract Prokaryotic biofilms that predominate in a diverse range of ecosystems are often
composed of highly structured multispecies communities. Within these communities …

The most fundamental questions such as whether a cell is alive, in the sense of being able
to divide or to form a colony, may sometimes be very hard to answer, since even axenic …

The dominant molecular species contributing to the surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
(SERS) spectra of bacteria excited at 785 nm are the metabolites of purine degradation …

Introduced microorganisms are potentially powerful agents for manipulation of processes
and/or components in soil. Fields of application include enhancement of crop growth …

Four epidemiological categories were initially devised for classifying water-related infectious
“diseases” with regard to the engineering technologies required to prevent or control them …

This work was performed to establish a model describing bacterial surface structures
involved in biofilm development, in curli‐overproducing Escherichia coli K‐12 strains, at 30° …

In the traditional microbiological recovery and culture techniques, the assumption is made
that each living bacterium in the sample gives rise to a colony, following placement on the …

The presence and the transformations of organic fractions within biofilms are not usually
included to biofilm models, mainly owing to the lack of knowledge of the important …

One of the strongest and most noticeable responses of a Bacillus subtilis cell to a range of
stress and starvation conditions is the dramatic induction of a large number of general stress …