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From the paper "Dispersing biofilms with engineered enzymatic bacteriophage" by Lu and Collins. http://www.pnas.org/content/104/27/11197.full

The phage has been engineered to carry a biofilm degrading enzyme, which is used to break up the targeted bacteria's biofilm and expose more cells to attack.

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current20:31, 24 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 20:31, 24 March 20131,512 × 547 (104 KB)Neil R Gottel (talk | contribs)From the paper "Dispersing biofilms with engineered enzymatic bacteriophage" by Lu and Collins. http://www.pnas.org/content/104/27/11197.full This image demonstrates the use of a phage engineered to carry a biofilm degrading enzyme, which is used to brea

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