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Turning tides for quorum sensing

Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 14, pages 64–65 (2016)Cite this article

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“S. aureus ... uses flow-induced shutdown of quorum sensing in the peripheral cells for the formation of a robust biofilm, while enabling cells from the bottom of the biofilm to escape”

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  1. Kim, M. K. et al. Local and global consequences of flow on bacterial quorum sensing. Nat. Microbiol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.5 (2016)

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  1. Ursula Hofer
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Hofer, U. Turning tides for quorum sensing. Nat Rev Microbiol 14, 64–65 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro.2015.26

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