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Christophe Beloin¹, Diane McDougald^2,3

¹Genetics of Biofilms Laboratory, Institut Pasteur, UMR CNRS2001, Paris, France.

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

|March 11, 2021

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biofilm detection methods biofilm heterogeneity biofilm infections infection models multi-species biofilm

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