The extracellular matrix Component Psl provides fast-acting antibiotic defense in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

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Published in PLoS Pathog on August 08, 2013

Authors

Nicole Billings1, MariaRamirez Millan, Marina Caldara, Roberto Rusconi, Yekaterina Tarasova, Roman Stocker, Katharina Ribbeck

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1: Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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