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Comment
. 2003 May;185(9):2687-9.
doi: 10.1128/JB.185.9.2687-2689.2003.

To build a biofilm

George A O'Toole  1
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To build a biofilm

George A O'Toole. J Bacteriol. 2003 May.
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FIG. 1.
How do bacteria control the transition from free-swimming planktonic cells to life in a multibacterial community? On the left is shown fluorescently labeled planktonic P. aeruginosa at ×1,400 magnification. Within a few days, these individual microbes can form the community pictured on the right. This top-down fluorescent image shows a mature 5-day-old biofilm grown in a flowing system at ×230 magnification. The macrocolonies shown here (white arrows) vary from ∼35 to more than 50 μm in height.
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