Longitudinal Surveys Show that Urethral Catheters Harbor Recurrent Polymicrobial Biofilms with Cooperative and Competitive Behaviors Among Cohabitating Pathogens
Yanbao Yu, Harinder Singh, Tamara Tsitrin, Shiferaw Bekele, Kelvin J. Moncera, Patricia Sikorski, Manolito G. Torralba, Lisa Morrow, Randall Wolcott, Karen E. Nelson, Rembert Pieper
The paper shows that urethral catheters host recurrent polymicrobial biofilms where bacteria exhibit cooperative and competitive interactions.
bioRxiv · Aug 9, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology