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🦠 Plastic-Eating Bacteria and Biofilm Infections: A Growing Threat Inside the Human Body

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that Pseudomonas aeruginosa—a dangerous hospital superbug—can digest biodegradable plastics using a newly identified enzyme called Pap1. This ability doesn’t just help the bacteria survive on medical plastics like sutures and catheters; it may also shed light on a far broader biological hazard: bacterial colonization of human tissue contaminated with microplastics.  […]