Bacterial crowd control with iron.
Bacterial biofilms account for more than 80% of human infections. Hergenrother and coworkers report in this issue that high concentrations of iron salts can block the formation of these bacterial communities; this represents an attractive new method for biofilm control.
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Helen E
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Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1122, USA. blackwell@chem.wisc.edu
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