Detection and characterization of bacterial biofilms and biofilm-based sensors

R Funari, AQ Shen - ACS sensors, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microbial biofilms have caused serious concerns in healthcare, medical, and food industries
because of their intrinsic resistance against conventional antibiotics and cleaning …

Electrochemical Detection of Pyocyanin as a Biomarker for Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A Focused Review

FAZ Alatraktchi, WE Svendsen, S Molin - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is a pathogen that is recognized for its advanced antibiotic
resistance and its association with serious diseases such as ventilator-associated …

A new BiofilmChip device for testing biofilm formation and antibiotic susceptibility

N Blanco-Cabra, MJ López-Martínez… - npj Biofilms and …, 2021 - nature.com
Currently, three major circumstances threaten the management of bacterial infections:
increasing antimicrobial resistance, expansion of chronic biofilm-associated infections, and …

Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of small colony variants and their role in chronic infection

BE Johns, KJ Purdy, NP Tucker… - Microbiology …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Small colony variant (SCV) bacteria arise spontaneously within apparently homogeneous
microbial populations, largely in response to environmental stresses, such as antimicrobial …

[HTML][HTML] Electrochemical sensors for detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence biomarkers: Principles of design and characterization

O Simoska, KJ Stevenson - Sensors and Actuators Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial infections remain an urgent threat to human health, specifically with the increasing
antimicrobial resistance mechanisms. The opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and characterisation of Staphylococcus aureus on low cost screen printed carbon electrodes using impedance spectroscopy

AC Ward, AJ Hannah, SL Kendrick, NP Tucker… - Biosensors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Staphylococcus aureus infections are a cause of significant morbidity and mortality, in
addition to representing a considerable economic burden. The aim of this study was to …

Monitoring of bacteria biofilms forming process by in-situ impedimetric biosensor chip

L Liu, Y Xu, F Cui, Y Xia, L Chen, X Mou, J Lv - Biosensors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
A biosensor chip integrated interdigital microelectrodes was proposed and applied to
monitor the formation process of Salmonella and E. coli biofilms in this paper. The biosensor …

Use of Single-Frequency Impedance Spectroscopy to Characterize the Growth Dynamics of Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

JBJH van Duuren, M Müsken, B Karge, J Tomasch… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Impedance spectroscopy has been applied in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cytometry as a
label-free method for the investigation of adherent cells. In this paper, its use for …

Microbial biofilm monitoring by electrochemical transduction methods

N Poma, F Vivaldi, A Bonini, P Salvo… - TrAC Trends in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The negative impact of biofilms in both the industry and the human health, demands the
development of strategies for the in situ and early detection of biofilm formation. In this …

Emerging technologies for the electrochemical detection of bacteria

F McEachern, E Harvey, G Merle - Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Infections are a huge economic liability to the health care system, although real‐time
detection can allow early treatment protocols to avoid some of this cost and patient morbidity …