Microbial biofilm: a review on formation, infection, antibiotic resistance, control measures, and innovative treatment

S Sharma, J Mohler, SD Mahajan, SA Schwartz… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biofilm is complex and consists of bacterial colonies that reside in an exopolysaccharide
matrix that attaches to foreign surfaces in a living organism. Biofilm frequently leads to …

Tolerance and Resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms to Antimicrobial Agents—How P. aeruginosa Can Escape Antibiotics

O Ciofu, T Tolker-Nielsen - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the six bacterial pathogens, Enterococcus faecium,
Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas …

Antimicrobial silver nanoparticles for wound healing application: progress and future trends

F Paladini, M Pollini - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recent data have reported that the burden of infections related to antibiotic-resistant
bacteria in the European Union and European Economic Area (EEA) can be estimated as …

Challenges of intervention, treatment, and antibiotic resistance of biofilm-forming microorganisms

G Gebreyohannes, A Nyerere, C Bii, DB Sbhatu - Heliyon, 2019 - cell.com
Background Biofilms are multicellular communities of microorganisms held together by a self-
produced extracellular matrix. The ability of microbes to form biofilm is a universal …

Biofilm formation in the lung contributes to virulence and drug tolerance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

P Chakraborty, S Bajeli, D Kaushal, BD Radotra… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tuberculosis is a chronic disease that displays several features commonly associated with
biofilm-associated infections: immune system evasion, antibiotic treatment failures, and …

Convergence of Biofilm Formation and Antibiotic Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

S Roy, G Chowdhury, AK Mukhopadhyay… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a leading cause of nosocomial infections as this
pathogen has certain attributes that facilitate the subversion of natural defenses of the …

Biofilm-related disease

JL Del Pozo - Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Biofilm formation represents a protected mode of growth that renders bacterial
cells less susceptible to antimicrobials and to killing by host immune effector mechanisms …

Bacterial biofilm formation on biomaterials and approaches to its treatment and prevention

P Li, R Yin, J Cheng, J Lin - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bacterial biofilms can cause widespread infection. In addition to causing urinary tract
infections and pulmonary infections in patients with cystic fibrosis, biofilms can help …

Peptidomimetic polyurethanes inhibit bacterial biofilm formation and disrupt surface established biofilms

A Vishwakarma, F Dang, A Ferrell… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over 80% of all chronic bacterial infections in humans are associated with biofilms, which
are surface-associated bacterial communities encased within a secreted exopolysaccharide …

[HTML][HTML] Biofilms: Formation, drug resistance and alternatives to conventional approaches

R Mirghani, T Saba, H Khaliq, J Mitchell, L Do… - AIMS …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biofilms are aggregates of bacteria, in most cases, which are resistant usually to broad-
spectrum antibiotics in their typical concentrations or even in higher doses. A trend of …