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Enhanced Surface Colonization by Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Biofilms Formed by an Acinetobacter calcoaceticus Isolate from Meat-Processing Environments

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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 76, Issue 13, Pages 4557-4559

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AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02707-09

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  1. Foundation for Research Levy on Agricultural Products
  2. Norwegian Research Council
  3. EU [ProSafe-Beef Food-CT-2006-36241]

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A meat factory commensal bacterium, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, affected the spatial distribution of Escherichia coli O157:H7 surface colonization. The biovolume of E. coli O157:H7 was 400-fold higher (1.2 x 10(6) mu m(3)) in a dynamic cocultured biofilm than in a monoculture (3.0 x 10(3) mu m(3)), and E. coli O157: H7 colonized spaces between A. calcoaceticus cell clusters.

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