Yeast biofilm paper

Medical and environmental microbiology have

two distinct, although very short, histories

stemming, the first from the pioneering works

of Sommelweiss, Pasteur, Lister and Koch, the

second mainly from the studies of Bejerink and

Winogradsky. These two branches of microbiology

evolved and specialized separately producing

distinct communities and evolving

rather different approaches and techniques. The

evidence accumulated in recent decades indicate

that indeed most of the medically relevant

microorganisms have a short circulation within

the nosocomial environment and a larger one