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by Ramy Aziz
Are any human-associated biofilms "useful" or "beneficial" to human health?
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Elio comments:
LIz, nice point but do we know how "biofilmy" the vaginal lactobacilli actually are? They stick to vaginal epithelial cells (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631649/). I guess this can be called a biofilm.
Mark, thanks for the reference.
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