Preliminary experiments have focussed on quantifying erosion and sloughing as separate indicators of overall detachment rate.
Sloughing occurs only rarely and renewal takes place at a very low rate.
Finally, detachment of biofilms through erosion and sloughing in drinking-water distribution systems needs to be quantified.
The height-dependent mechanism produced flat biofilms that lacked sloughing events.
The different detachment mechanisms demonstrated diverse characteristics regarding structure, sloughing, and the existence of a steady state.
This first sloughing occurred at different times around day 40 for each of the five replicate simulations.
Detachment from biofilms in technical systems is caused by a combination of processes including abrasion, erosion, sloughing and predator grazing.
In the remaining test animals, histopathological changes could not be evaluated due to advanced autolysis and sloughing of the epithelium.
