Antimicrobial agent
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Antimicrobial agent. Any chemical or biological agent that harms the growth of microorganisms.
Anti-oncogene. See Recessive oncogene.
What we find across the board is that micro organisms in a biofilm are protected from all types of antimicrobial agents, everything from brut force, oxidizing agents like chlorine bleach, to antibiotics that have exquisitely specific cellular targets.
For example, a strain may gain pathogenic capacity, the ability to use a unique carbon source, the ability to inhabit a particular ecological niche or the ability to resist antimicrobial agents. Different strains of E.
 See also: Biology, Cells, Bacteria, Trans, Environment
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