Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive pathogen that causes potentially life-threatening
nosocomial-and community-acquired infections, such as osteomyelitis and endocarditis …

There is increasing concern about the public health impact of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus. Food and animal are vectors of transmission, but the contribution of …

Background Biofilm formation is a major virulence factor contributing to the chronicity of
infections. To date few studies have evaluated biofilm formation in infecting isolates of …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the major nosocomial
pathogens responsible for a wide spectrum of infections and the emergence of bacterial …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the main pathogens causing
chronic infections, mainly due to its capacity to form biofilms. However, the mechanisms …

Bacterial biofilm is a major factor in delayed wound healing and high levels of biofilm
production have been repeatedly described in multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs) …

Differences in phenotypic responses among strains of the same microbial species constitute
an important source of variability in microbiological studies, and as such they need to be …

Antibiotic therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections is
becoming more difficult in hospitals and communities because of strong biofilm-forming …

Many strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae can produce several virulence factors, such as
siderophores, capsules, fimbrial adhesins and antibiotic resistance enzymes, which are …

Surfactin lipopeptide (SLP) from Bacillus subtilis KLP2015 (Accession number KT459335)
was extracted and purified by ammonium sulphate precipitation, DEAE and size exclusion …