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Modeling Swimming Micro/Nano-Systems in Low Reynolds Number
Published in Ning Xi, Mingjun Zhang, Guangyong Li, Modeling and Control for Micro/Nano Devices and Systems, 2017
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Twitching motility is used by a wide range of bacteria, the best studied of which are Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Myxococcus xanthus, where it is referred to as “social gliding motility” [6].
In-silico modeling of early-stage biofilm formation
Published in Soft Materials, 2021
Pin Nie, Francisco Alarcon, Iván López-Montero, Belén Orgaz, Chantal Valeriani, Massimo Pica Ciamarra
EPS production is essential to the growth of biofilm in vivo, as it bridges bacteria cell together and to the hosting surface .[30] In the early stage formation, EPS production appears to cooperate with bacterial motility, e.g. twitching motility, [27] as bacteria need to be close in space to agglomerate. Indeed, motility suppression may hinder the formation of microcolonies and biofilms, [31] at least if the bacteria do not explore their environment via other physical processes, e.g. diffusion or drift in a flow.
Groundwater, soil and compost, as possible sources of virulent and antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2021
Edit Kaszab, Júlia Radó, Balázs Kriszt, Judit Pászti, Virág Lesinszki, Adám Szabó, Gergő Tóth, Ariane Khaledi, Sándor Szoboszlay
Based on our motility results, the previously drawn connections between twitching and biofilm formation (O’Toole and Kolter 1998) or antibiotic resistance (Shehata and Sayed 2011) were not verified since twitching motility was widespread among environmental isolates and the limitations of microtiter-plate test for detecting biofilms were revealed.