Microbial biofilm inhibits wound healing

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Introduction

Bacteria in biofilm are protected from antibiotic and host immune defenses. Source: Biofilms Made Easy,2010 1(1), Wounds International (http://www.woundsinternational.com/pdf/content_8851.pdf)].


By Katie Kaestner



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References

  1. ↑ Dowd, Scot E., Randall D. Wolcott, Yan Sun, Trevor McKeehan, Ethan Smith, and Daniel Rhoads. “Polymicrobial Nature of Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcer Biofilm Infections Determined Using Bacterial Tag Encoded FLX Amplicon Pyrosequencing (bTEFAP).” 2008. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3326. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003326.
  2. ↑ Bertesteanu, Serban, Stefanos Triaridis, Milan Stankovic, Veronica Lazar, Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc, Mihaela Vlad, and Raluca Grigore. “Polymicrobial wound infections: Pathophysicology and current therapeutic approaches.” 2014. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 463: 119-126. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2013.12.012.
  3. ↑ Attinger, Christopher, and Randy Wolcott. “Clinically Addressing Biofilm in Chronic Wounds.” 2011. Advances in Wound Care, 1(3): 127-132. DOI: 10.1089/wound.2011.0333.
  4. ↑ Duplantier, Allen J. and Monique L. Van Hoek. “The human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide LL-37 as a potential treatment for polymicrobial infected wounds.” 2013. Frontiers in Immunology 4(143): 1-14. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00143.
  5. ↑ Joo, Hwang-Soo and Michael Otto. “Molecular basis of In Vivo Biofilm Formation by Bacterial Pathogens.” 2012. Chemistry & Biology 19: 1503-1513. DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol/2012.10.022.
  6. ↑ Kirketerp-Moller, Karen Zulkowski, and Garth James. “Chronic Wound Colonization, Infection, and Biofilms.” 2011. Biofilm Infections (Chapter 2). DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6084-9_2.
  7. ↑ Percival, Steven L., and Philip G. Bowler. “Biofilms and Their Potential Role in Wound Healing.” 2004. Wounds 16(7).
  8. ↑ Percival, Steven L., and Philip G. Bowler. “Understanding the effects of bacterial communities and biofilms on wound healing.” 2004. World Wide Wounds.
  9. ↑ Tuttle, Marie S., Eliot Mostow, Pranab Mukherjee, Fen Z. Hu, Rachael melton-Kreft, Garth D. Ehrlich, Scot E. Dowd, and Mohmoud A. Ghannoum. “Characterization of Bacterial Communities in Venous Insufficiency Wounds by Use of Conventional Culture and Molecular Diagnostic Methods.” 2011. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 49(11): 3812-3819. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00847-11.
  10. ↑ Wolcott, R., J.W. Costerton, D. Raoult, and S.J. Culter. “The polymicrobial nature of biofilm infection.” 2013. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 19(2): 107-112. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.04001.x
  11. ↑ Zhao, Ge, Marcia L. Usui, Soyeon I. Lippman, Garth A. James, Philip S. Stewart, Philip Fleckman, and John E. Olerud. “Biofilms and Inflammation in Chronic Wounds.” 2013. Advances in Wound Care 2(7): 389-399. DOI: 10.1089/wound.2012.0381.



Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by Joan Slonczewski, 2016, Kenyon College.

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