Microbial biofilms
Methods and protocol flow cells: technique used for studying microbial biofilms
... multicellular microbial life ...grow biofilms, flow cell technology has become one of the most recently patronised models used to study microbial ...
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The use of microscopy and three-dimensional visualization to evaluate the structure of microbial biofilms cultivated in the calgary biofilm device
... of microbial biofilms to antibiotics (15), disinfectants and metals (16, ...species biofilms to be tested against an 8 × 12 matrix of controlled ...examine microbial biofilm structures under ...
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Clinical implications of microbial biofilms in chronic rhinosinusitis and orbital cellulitis
... above, microbial biofilms having a sur- vival advantage due to evasion of host immunity and un- responsiveness to antimicrobial therapy, can give rise to serious infections, especially among ICU patients ...
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Dynamic Remodeling of Microbial Biofilms by Functionally Distinct Exopolysaccharides
... ABSTRACT Biofilms are densely populated communities of microbial cells protected and held together by a matrix of extracellu- lar polymeric ...single-species biofilms on top of ...
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Microbial Biofilms Formed in a Laboratory Scale Anammox Bioreactor with Flexible Brush Carrier
... of biofilms formed in an anaerobic laboratory-scale bio- reactor fed with medium for anammox bacteria oxidizing ammonia with ...the microbial community that sampled from the activated sludge of a ...
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Microbial Biofilms on Needleless Connectors for Central Venous Catheters: Comparison of Standard and Silver Coated Devices Collected from Patients in an Acute Care Hospital
... Microorganisms may colonize needleless connectors (NCs) on intravascular catheters, forming biofilms and predisposing pa- tients to catheter-associated infection (CAI). Standard and silver-coated NCs were ...
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Characterising and Understanding the Impact of Microbial Biofilms and the Extracellular Polymeric Substance (EPS) Matrix in Drinking Water Distribution Systems
... under normal operating conditions (during a water quality event the difference between the bacterial commu- nities at the treatment works and in the DWDS is likely to be greater), seasonal effects upon DWDS ...
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Origin of phagotrophic eukaryotes as social cheaters in microbial biofilms
... of biofilms pro- vided osmotic, chemical and mechanical protection thereby buffering this radical cellular ...since biofilms limited diffusion and digestive enzymes could reach high ...
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Nanotechnology-based drug delivery systems for control of microbial biofilms: a review
... The strategy was based on the use of SLNs to destabilize bacterial adhesion in tissues and surfaces, thus preventing the formation of biofilms. Furthermore, the antibacterial action of LA and OA stimulated the ...
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Rheology of biofilms
... Microbial biofilms are the populations of micro-organisms that concentrate at wetted solid surfaces in both industrial and natural ...the microbial life cycle in these organisms. Typically, ...
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Quorum sensing and cheating in bacterial biofilms
... influence microbial biofilms, our results may have clinical ...antibiotic-resistant biofilms during such infections ...aeruginosa biofilms more susceptible to Tb ...the biofilms cells ...
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Biofilms and hygiene on dairy farms and in the dairy industry: sanitation chemical products and their effectiveness on biofilms – a review
... Microbial biofilms which form on all types of surfaces of technological systems in the dairy industry and on dairy farms adversely affect the quality and safety of final products, ...health. Biofilms ...
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Bioremediation of Textile dyes by Fungal-Bacterial Biofilms
... discard. Microbial communities have potential ability to decolorize synthetic commercial dyes used for textile ...degrading microbial biofilms from endophytic fungi and soil ...a. Biofilms ...
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Influence of flow on the structure of bacterial biofilms
... which biofilms are found and the disciplines that the subject ...of microbial origin” ...of biofilms as “matrix- enclosed bacterial populations adherent to each other and/or to surfaces or ...
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Granular biofilms: formation, function, application,
... diversity of methanogenic granules from a full-scale upflow anaerobic sludge bed reactor 23. treating brewery wastewater.[r] ...
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Prevention and treatment of biofilms by hybrid- and nanotechnologies
... Electrical energy can increase antimicrobial activity against established biofilms, and may synergistically enhance antibi- otic killing efficiencies. For example, simultaneous application of antibiotics and a low ...
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Photobleaching of red fluorescence in oral biofilms
... Key Words: Oral biofilm, plaque, fluorescence, quantitative light-induced fluorescence digital QLFD, porphyrin, photobleaching... Background and Objective: Many species of oral bacteria [r] ...
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Oral Biofilms: Development, Control and Analysis
... Bacteriophages, or bacterial viruses, can potentially be used to eradicate bacterial biofilms in a targeted and effective manner. The bacteriophage disrupts a biofilm from within the matrix by killing the ...
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Photobleaching of red fluorescence in oral biofilms
... Local macromolecule diffusion coefficients in structurally nonuniform bacterial biofilms using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching FRAP.. Induction of lethal photosensitization in[r] ...
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Cell viability within oral biofilms
... Vital staining; viable and nonviable compared by normalising fluorescence values in different optical sections... Dead lower layers, live middle / upper layers, less live in outermost la[r] ...
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