MicrobeWorld - Garlic Constituent Blocks Biofilm Formation, Could Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Patients and Others

Bacterial biofilms are far more resistant than individual bacteria to the armories of antibiotics we have devised to combat them. Now Tim Holm Jakobsen and Michael Givskov of the University of Copenhagen, and their many collaborators have pinpointed a constituent of garlic that attacks a key step in the development of biofilms