The discovery that bacteria predominantly exist as a biofilm in natural ecosystems 1,2,3 led to the realization that better-designed systems were needed for growing and testing disinfectant efficacy ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A mathematical model of microbial competition for limiting nutrients and for a limited set of available wall-attachment sites in an ...

Competition for nutrient and the ability of bacteria to colonize the gut wall are factors believed to play a role in the observed stability of the indigenous microbiota of the mammalian large ...