BACTERIA-STROKE SWIMMING HELPS BUGS FIND FOOD AND MULTIPLY SAY AMERICAN RESEARCHERS
March 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIERESEARCHERS from Yale University in the USA investigating how bacteria 'swim' in fluids have determined that a bacteria's swimming strokes pattern is linked to the high infection rates associated with catheters in hospital patients.According to a study in Physical Review Letters, E coli bacteria and other pathogens swimming with flagella or tails move straight ahead when not faced with obstructions, but near a surface or obstacle the bacteria "swim to the left" often getting stuck in minute crevices in the process, such as those on the surface of ...
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