Vickery Karen
Surgical Infection Research Group, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, Australia.
Materials (Basel). 2019 Jun 22;12(12):2001. doi: 10.3390/ma12122001.
Biofilms are a structured community of microorganisms that are attached to a surface. Individual bacteria are embedded in a bacterial-secreted matrix. Biofilms have significantly increased tolerance to removal by cleaning agents and killing by disinfectants and antibiotics. This special issue is devoted to diagnosis and treatment of biofilm-related diseases in man. It highlights the differences between the biofilm and planktonic (single cell) lifestyles and the diseases biofilms cause from periodontitis to breast implant capsular contracture. Biofilm-specific treatment options are detailed in experimental and review manuscripts.
生物膜是附着在表面的微生物结构化群落。单个细菌嵌入细菌分泌的基质中。生物膜对清洁剂去除以及消毒剂和抗生素杀灭的耐受性显著增强。本期特刊致力于人类生物膜相关疾病的诊断和治疗。它突出了生物膜与浮游(单细胞)生活方式之间的差异,以及生物膜从牙周炎到乳房植入物包膜挛缩所引发的疾病。实验性和综述性稿件中详细介绍了生物膜特异性治疗方案。