They also contaminated the hands of volunteers with Serratia marcescens bacteria to test how well each soap removed bacteria. (scientificamerican.com)
People with Crohn's disease have an overabundance of Candida tropicalis fungus along with Escherichia coli and Serratia marcescens bacteria, say Christopher Hager and Mahmoud Ghannoum of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. (sciencenews.org)
Meanwhile S. marcescens make protein strings that somehow stabilize the biofilm. (sciencenews.org)