Cystic-fibrosis patients often have drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterial communities in their lungs. It seems that the bacterium's antibiotic resistance and ability to form communities are turned on together.
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O'Toole, G. A resistance switch. Nature 416, 695–696 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416695a
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