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Using Short Chain Fatty Acids To Inactivate Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilms, Stephen Lee
Using Short Chain Fatty Acids To Inactivate Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilms, Stephen Lee
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Abstract
Using Short Chain Fatty Acids to Disinfect Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilms
by
Stephen Lee
Background
The study of bacteria typically focuses on the planktonic or free-living single-cell state that is purely cultured in a laboratory for subsequent growth with appropriate media. Although this traditional way of growing bacteria has been paramount to the understanding of bacterial behavior, physiology, and pathogenesis, bacteria rarely exist as pure cultures of planktonic growth forms in the natural habitat. Bacterial contamination of environmental surfaces, in the form of biofilms, is a prime public health problem and causes numerous infections within the general public. Biofilms are …