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Nature Genetics  29, 360 (2001)
doi:10.1038/ng1201-360

A brief on bacterial biofilms

Robert E.W. Hancock

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, University Boulevard, Vancouver, Canada. bob@cmdr.ubc.ca

Many bacteria in nature and in persistent infections grow in communities on biofilms. A new study demonstrates that this adaptation is accompanied by a suprisingly modest change in the transcriptional profile of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

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