Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are highly prevalent, lead to considerable patient morbidity,
incur large financial costs to health-care systems and are one of the most common reasons …

For a subject area of science, medicine and commerce to be so recently defined and
investigated, few can compare to probiotics for the controversy they have incited. Barely a …

Biofilms are matrix‐enclosed microbial aggregates that adhere to a biological or
nonbiological surface. Biofilm formation is a significant problem in the medical, food, and …

Surfactants are surface-active compounds capable of reducing surface and interfacial
tension at the interfaces between liquids, solids and gases, thereby allowing them to mix or …

The gastrointestinal tract is a complex ecosystem that associates a resident microbiota and
cells of various phenotypes lining the epithelial wall expressing complex metabolic activities …

The understanding of the formation, structures, and properties of emulsions is essential to
the creation and stabilization of structures in food. The increasing use of surfactants, the …

In this review, initial microbial adhesive interactions are divided into adhesion to substratum
surfaces, coaggregation between microbial pairs and co-adhesion between sessile and …

The use and potential commercial application of biosurfactants in the medical field has
increased during the past decade. Their antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities make …

Fish are continuously exposed to a wide range of microorganisms present in the
environment, and the microbiota of fish have been the subject of several reviews. This …

In response to certain environmental signals, bacteria will differentiate from an independent
free-living mode of growth and take up an interdependent surface-attached existence. These …