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IMAGINE taking antibiotics for a urinary tract infection, only for the infection to return weeks later. Or having a wound that refuses to heal despite repeated treatment.

For some patients, the problem is not simply that antibiotics have stopped working. It is that bacteria have found clever ways to protect themselves. And one of their most effective survival strategies is building a protective layer known as a biofilm.

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