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The Plastisphere – Uncovering tightly attached plastic “specific” microorganisms

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High-pressure water Jet treatment with the a) high pressure treatment device. b) Barplot of the enumerated mean of adherent membrane intact (green) and membrane damaged (red) cells after a high pressure treatment at 4 bar for 2 minutes, vertical bars denote the Standard Error. Photograph of the 21 month old biofilm attached to c) Polylactic acid and d) Low density polyethylene. Resulting spots e; f) in respective biofilms after high pressure treatment. Double stained (SYBR Green & PI) cells on respective substrate g; h) after high pressure treatment with, scale bars are 10 μm.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215859.g002