Secrets of microbial motion: How bacteria swash, glide and shift gears to survive

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Source: Graphic by Jason Drees/ASU

Two new studies reveal surprising ways microbes move, with implications for human health and disease. The first shows that  salmonella and E. coli can ’swash’ across moist surfaces even when their flagella are disabled, while the second probes the T9SS gearbox in flavobacteria.

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