About biofilms, some lost reflections

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Just a question I ask myself about biofilms. There is a long history of biofilms

concerning a lot of deseases, and the concept was recently applied to the Lyme

desease, as we all know (e.g. the very recent work of Alan Mc). Some

believe that it is the source of the chronic aspect of the desease. According to

that a lot people try destroying these films, using ***ase products or other as

acetylcysteine. There is a growing litterature about that.

Now, what about.....doing the opposit thing, that is, instead of breaking the

films, reinforce it, so the bacteria are trapped, and then die after a certain

delay. Also, what if the biofilms were an immune system defense ?

My post may seems strange I know, but aren' they too few scientific edvidences

to attack those films knowing that other bacteria are also trapped in these ?

Waiting for your comments.

Philippe