Biofilm

	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
...rom the bacteria, while the latter will 'try to steal' the iron from the host cells. Iron is a very important material for growth of bacteria and without iron they wouldn't have the ability to built biofilm or colonies of microbes to cause chronic infections. "Because iron is so important in infection, we thought infecting bacteria might be vulnerable to interventions that target iron," said Yukihiro Kaneko, one of the a...
	read more »

	Biofilm Bacteria Protect Themselves With Chemical Weapons
...According to the researchers from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, they were able to discover the strategies that biofilm bacteria use. In most cases biofilm bacteria develop in crowds and squat on areas where they create a community with other bacteria. They can develop on any surface to which bacteria can affix to. It is interesting to note that these biofilms cannot be destroyed by any disinfectants and a...
	read more »