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Planktonic aggregates of Staphylococcus aureus protect against common antibiotics.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Haaber Jakob, Cohn Marianne Thorup, Frees Dorte, Andersen Thorbjørn Joest, Ingmer Hanne
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial cells are mostly studied during planktonic growth although in their natural habitats they are often found in communities such as biofilms with dramatically different physiological properties. We have examined another type of community namely cellular aggregates observed in strains of the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. By laser-diffraction particle-size analysis (LDA) we show, for strains forming...
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