College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Co 80524.
Wadsworth Center, NY State Department of Health and University at Albany, Albany, NY 12208.
Microbiol Spectr. 2017 Jun;5(3). doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.TBTB2-0024-2016.
Under detergent-free conditions, , the etiological agent of tuberculosis in humans, spontaneously forms organized multicellular structures called biofilms. Moreover, biofilms of are more persistent against antibiotics than their single-cell planktonic counterparts, thereby raising questions about the occurrence of biofilms in the host tissues and their significance in persistence during chemotherapy of tuberculosis. In this article, we present arguments that extracellular in necrotizing lesions likely grows as biofilms.
在无洗涤剂条件下,人类结核病的病原体分枝杆菌会自发形成称为生物膜的组织化多细胞结构。此外,分枝杆菌的生物膜比其单细胞浮游生物对应物更能抵抗抗生素,这引发了关于生物膜在宿主组织中出现及其在结核病化疗期间持续存在中的意义的问题。在本文中,我们提出了这样的论点,即在坏死病变中,细胞外分枝杆菌可能以生物膜的形式生长。