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Electron micrograph showing MRSA attached to the surface of urinary catheter (Courtesy of S. M. Jones).
Electron micrograph showing VRE attached to the surface of urinary catheter (Courtesy of S. M. Jones).
Examples of multilumen intravascular catheters.
Micrographs of (a) S. sanguinis and (b) F. nucleatum biofilm stained using hexidium iodide and visualized under epifluorescence (Phillips, Brading, and Lappin-Scott, unpublished data).
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