Spatiotemporal evaporating droplet dynamics on fomites enhances long term bacterial pathogenesis

Sreeparna Majee et al. combines flow visualization, optical microscopy, mathematical modeling, and biological experiments to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of drying bacterial droplets, demonstrating long-term bacterial pathogenesis after drying and rehydration.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sreeparna Majee, Atish Roy Chowdhury, Roven Pinto, Ankur Chattopadhyay, Amey Nitin Agharkar, Dipshikha Chakravortty, Saptarshi Basu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-10-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02711-z