A third point mentioned by Jékely is to study social conflict in marine microbial biofilms 'since nutrient-rich terrestrial soils are not likely to have existed at the origin of eukaryotes'.
This biofilm is the cause of many oral diseases, and it has been estimated that roughly 60% of human infections can be ascribed to microbial biofilms [8].
Every wet surface is a substrate for microbial biofilms and in food handling facilities biofilms can be particularly problematic.
Unfortunately, antimicrobial materials can be significantly less effective against microbial biofilms than against planktonic cultures.
Every natural wet surface is a substrate for microbial biofilms.
OPGs are dense, spherical, interwoven microbial biofilms comprised of cyanobacteria encapsulating heterotrophs, autotrophs, and microalgae.
Microbial biofilms formed on biomaterials are major causes of chronic infections.
The presence of microbial biofilms on catheters was verified ex vivo with fluorescence microscopy.
The heterogeneity in a matrix is visible in both kinds of biofilms, i.e., single species populations of microbial biofilms and mixed species populations of microbial biofilms (Prakash et al. 2003; Bogino et al. 2013).
Many early biofilm studies used scanning electron microscopy (SEM), which showed in detail the surface morphologies of microbial biofilms and their structure.
