白色念珠菌生物膜抗真菌药敏试验技术
Techniques for antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida albicans biofilms.
作者信息
Ramage Gordon, López-Ribot José Luis
机构信息
Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK.
出版信息
Methods Mol Med. 2005;118:71-9. doi: 10.1385/1-59259-943-5:071.
Candida albicans is capable of forming biofilms on a variety of inert and biological surfaces. Cells in biofilms display phenotypic properties that are radically different from their free-floating planktonic counterparts, including their recalcitrance to antimicrobial agents. Consequently, Candida biofilm-associated infections are difficult to treat and to fully eradicate with standard antifungal therapy. Here, we describe a simple, fast, inexpensive and highly reproducible microtiter plate-based assay for the antifungal susceptibility testing of C. albicans biofilms. Because of its simplicity, compatibility with widely available 96-well microplate platform, high throughput, and automation potential, this assay represents an important tool towards the standardization of in vitro antifungal susceptibility testing of fungal biofilms.
白色念珠菌能够在各种惰性和生物表面形成生物膜。生物膜中的细胞表现出与自由漂浮的浮游细胞截然不同的表型特性,包括它们对抗菌剂的耐受性。因此,念珠菌生物膜相关感染难以用标准抗真菌疗法进行治疗和完全根除。在此,我们描述了一种基于微孔板的简单、快速、廉价且高度可重复的检测方法,用于白色念珠菌生物膜的抗真菌药敏试验。由于其简单性、与广泛使用的96孔微孔板平台的兼容性、高通量以及自动化潜力,该检测方法是实现真菌生物膜体外抗真菌药敏试验标准化的重要工具。