6) In a report to the New York Ophthalmological Society in 1912, Knapp noted that some patients who underwent cataract surgery later manifested clinical signs of dystrophia epithelialis with stromal and epithelial oedema, as described by Fuchs; (7) this is now known as pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK), which is a complication of cataract ...
A biofilm is any group of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS).
In this chapter we will explore the developmental biology of biofilms, the advantages to a bacterium of being part of a biofilm and, those emergent properties which make biofilms unique. The Developmental Biology of Biofilms The Conditioning Film Within moments of placing a clean sterile slide into a water source, be it a pond, stream or an aquarium, a film begins to form that consists of proteins and polysaccharide molecules adsorbed to the glass surface.