Biofilms in Nature and the Consequences to Health
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Bacteria exist often as multispecies biofilms in nature, which may allow pathogens to survive in nature away from their natural host where they may serve as a nidus for reinfection.
BIOFILMS IN NATURE AND THE CONSEQUENCES TO HEALTH
Bacteria exist often as
multispecies biofilms in nature, which may allow pathogens to survive in nature
away from their natural host where they may serve as a nidus for reinfection.
Examples of this are enteric organisms that form biofilms in drinking water
pipes or in wells. Following an original contamination event, biofilms allow
for sustainability of these populations, which then serve to shed further
organisms into potable water supplies, even after the apparent clearance of the
original contamination event. Contamination of our groundwater sources pose
concerns for the future of our potable water supplies; this threat is accentuated
by the stability that biofilms of these contaminants bring into the equation.
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