Biofilms in : Attachment · 425
Surface cities of microbes — plaque and catheters explain persistence, without a grow-your-own kit. J. William Biofilms enters public talk in as “Attachment.” The figure to keep is 1978. It is not a dose, and this sentence is not a diagnosis. Start with hands, water, or food — the place you actually meet it. Never fall back to English prose under /microbes/en/.
Surface cities of microbes — plaque and catheters explain persistence, without a grow-your-own kit. J. William Costerton and colleagues popularized biofilm for sessile communities glued in their own matrix. Plaque is the everyday biofilm: mixed oral species on teeth, fed by sugars and time.
Catheters, joints and valves can host films that shrug off doses that kill planktonic cells. Extracellular polymeric substance — sugars, proteins, DNA — holds water and slows some drugs. Many species use chemical signals to coordinate group behavior once density rises — a concept, not a home experiment.
Reviews often estimate that a majority of chronic device-related infections involve biofilm; the exact share is debated. A biofilm is a community stuck to a surface and wrapped in a homemade matrix, not a lonely floating cell. Plaque and catheter films show why a drug that works in a flask can fail on a surface.
Say Biofilms with , “Attachment,” and 1978. Do not turn the figure into a dose.1978
Figures to keep
- Year of the guidance
- 1978
- Figure kept
- 1978
- Organism
- Biofilms
- Public-health line
- Attachment