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Microbial biofilms were massively developing on the surfaces and within the painting layers of mural paintings of a parish church in Lower Saxony, which were exposed and restored in the end of 1970s. The causes of the heavy infections remained unclear. Within the frame of an European research project (ENV4-CT98-0705) these microbial infections were documented and analyzed. By scanning electron microscopy...