🌀 This dime-sized #biofilm,
however, was formed by the opportunistic #pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

🌀Under the right conditions,
this bacterium can infect wounds caused by severe burns.

🌀The bacteria release a variety of materials to form an extracellular matrix (stained red).

🌀The matrix holds the biofilm together and protects the #bacteria from #antibiotics and the immune system.

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