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SUBMITTER: Tavernier S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4349053 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tavernier Sarah S Coenye Tom T
PeerJ 20150224
Multispecies biofilms are an important healthcare problem and may lead to persistent infections. These infections are difficult to treat, as cells in a biofilm are highly resistant to antimicrobial agents. While increasingly being recognized as important, the properties of multispecies biofilms remain poorly studied. In order to do so, the quantification of the individual species is needed. The current cultivation-based approaches can lead to an underestimation of the actual cell number and are ...[more]