#Why do hospital germs bind more strongly to certain surfaces than to others?
“#Why do hospital germs bind more strongly to certain surfaces than to others?” Model of the adhesion mechanism by which the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus binds to hydrophobic (‘low-energy’) surfaces (left) compared with hydrophilic (‘high-energy’) surfaces (right). On the left, a large number of cell wall molecules (shown here as tiny compressible springs) are involved in…