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Also, the surfaces of an ETT provide bacteria with a substratum that promotes microbial colonization and biofilm formation [10 13].

Both micropatterns demonstrated less microbial colonization and smaller aggregates than control surfaces for the two organisms tested (Figure 2).

This showed high microbial colonization and active decomposition of substrate in the first 2 months of the composting process.

Edwards and Harding (2004) reviewed the role of microbiota in chronic wounds, marking an important distinction between microbial colonization and infection.

These fibrin networks have been shown to facilitate microbial colonization and correlate with CRBSIs that occur in the clinic [20,22,24-27].

To determine the impact of empiric ampicillin and gentamicin use in the first week of life on microbial colonization and diversity in preterm infants.

Surface biofouling poses an increasing problem in industrial and health care applications, driving research for surface coatings to prevent anti-microbial colonization and characterization of the efficacy of the same.

Inflammatory responses require the activation of a complex gene expression program that involves the inducible transcription of hundreds of genes whose products restrain microbial colonization, recruit and activate leukocytes, increase vascular permeability, amplify the response, and protect inflammatory and tissue cells from apoptosis (Medzhitov, 2008).

Given these data, it is tempting to suggest that perturbation of the GI community, due to antibiotic administration or viral infection early in life, may affect microbial colonization patterns and permit outgrowth of specific resistant members of the community that influence immune development.

All the supporting data (raw data on microbial colonization rates and enzymatic activities) are included as additional files.

Identifying these signaling events may unravel the pathways utilized by the host tissue to assess the microbial colonization status and appropriately respond by modifying its transcriptome.