R. Freter et al. (1983) developed a simple chemostat-based model of competition between two bacterial strains, one of which is capable of wall-growth, in order to illuminate the role of bacterial wall attachment on the phenomenon of colonization resistance in the mammalian gut. Together with various collaborators, we have re-formulated the model in the setting of a tubular flow reactor, extended the interpretation of the model as a biofilm model, and provided both mathematical analysis and numerical simulations of solution behavior. The present paper provides a review of the work in [4–6,31–35,45, 46].
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Ballyk, M., Jones, D., & Smith, H. L. (2008). The Biofilm Model of Freter: A Review (pp. 265–302). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78273-5_6
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