Anthrax-causing bacteria form biofilms on a soil-inspired porous glass bead model

Leonard Borst; Sabine Howaldt; Rocío Berdaguer; Christoph Schaudinn; Susann Dupke; Maren Stämmler; Peter Lasch; Holger C. Scholz; Silke R. Klee

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0014043

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Anthrax-causing bacteria form biofilms on a soil-inspired porous glass bead model

Leonard Borst,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 2: Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Sabine Howaldt,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 2: Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Rocío Berdaguer,

Roles Methodology

Current Address: BioNTech R&D (Austria), Wien, Austria

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 2: Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Christoph Schaudinn,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 4: Advanced Light and Electron Microscopy, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Susann Dupke,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 2: Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Maren Stämmler,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 6: Proteomics and Spectroscopy, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Peter Lasch,

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 6: Proteomics and Spectroscopy, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Holger C. Scholz,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 2: Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Silke R. Klee

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: kleeS@rki.de

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, ZBS 2: Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-9642

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Anthrax-causing bacteria form biofilms on a soil-inspired porous glass bead model

Leonard Borst,
Sabine Howaldt,
Rocío Berdaguer,
Christoph Schaudinn,
Susann Dupke,
Maren Stämmler,
Peter Lasch,
Holger C. Scholz,
Silke R. Klee

Published: March 3, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0014043

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