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Mycobacterium avium ssp. hominissuis biofilm is composed of distinct phenotypes and influenced by the presence of antimicrobials.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 May 2011
McNabe M, Tennant R, Danelishvili L, Young L, Bermudez L E
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium avium ssp. hominissuis, hereafter referred to as M. avium, forms biofilm, a property that, in mice, is associated with lung infection via aerosol. As M. avium might co-inhabit the respiratory tract with other pathogens, treatment of the co-pathogen-associated infections, such as in bronchiectasis, would expose M. avium to therapeutic compounds that may have their origin in other organisms sharing...
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