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Digging deeper in the biofilm

Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 19, page 484 (2021)Cite this article

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This month’s Under the Lens discusses the application of the quantitative image analysis software BiofilmQ to understand antibiotic-induced changes in Vibrio cholerae biofilms at single-cell resolution.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Divya Choudhary & Chloé J. Cassaro

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Choudhary, D., Cassaro, C.J. Digging deeper in the biofilm. Nat Rev Microbiol 19, 484 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-021-00584-x

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