Biofilm Highlights

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Flemming, Hans-Curt (Editor), Wingender, Jost (Editor), Szewzyk, Ulrich (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Edition: First.
• Series: Springer Series on Biofilms, 5
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medical microbiology.; Microbiology.; Water pollution.; Materials science.; Life Sciences.; Applied Microbiology.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Medical Microbiology.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

Living in biofilms is the common way of life of microorganisms, transiently immobilized in their matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), interacting in many ways and using the matrix as an external digestion and protection system. This is how they have organized their life in the environ...