Infection Control Today - Bacterial Biofilms

Bacteria Research Leads to More Effective Treatment of Complex Infections

Bacteria are life forms, which, like all other life forms, struggle for the best living conditions for themselves. Therefore they will try to avoid getting attacked by the human immune system, and therefore they have developed various ways to protect themselves from the ...More

2 weeks ago

Posted in News

Research Could Help Battle Bacterial Infections That Do Not Respond to Powerful Drugs

Bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly resilient communities known as biofilms. It turns out that they organize in a rich-get-richer pattern similar to many economies, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA, Northwestern University and ...More

3 weeks ago

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Researchers Sequence Genome of Periodontal Pathogen from Biofilm in Hospital Sink

A team of researchers led by scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has published a study outlining the recovery and genomic analysis, using single-cell genomic techniques, of a periodontal pathogen -- Porphyromonas gingivalis -- from a hospital sink. This is ...More

3 weeks ago

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Secrets of Bacterial Slime Revealed

Newcastle University scientists have revealed the mechanism that causes a slime to form, making bacteria hard to shift and resistant to antibiotics. When under threat, some bacteria can shield themselves in a slimy protective layer, known as a biofilm. It is made up of ...More

April 12, 2013

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Researchers Find Salmonella to be More Resilient Than Originally Thought

Virginia Tech scientists have provided new evidence that biofilms — bacteria that adhere to surfaces and build protective coatings — are at work in the survival of the human pathogen Salmonella. ...More

April 10, 2013

Posted in News

Clinging to Crevices, E. coli Thrive

New research from Harvard University helps to explain how waterborne bacteria can colonize rough surfaces—even those that have been designed to resist water. ...More

April 10, 2013

Posted in News

Bacteria Clog Medical Devices Very Quickly, Study Shows

A new study examines how bacteria clog medical devices, and the result isn’t pretty. The microbes join to create slimy ribbons that tangle and trap other passing bacteria, creating a full blockage in a startlingly short period of time. The finding could help ...More

March 1, 2013

Posted in News

Researcher Solves 'Sticky' Bacterial Problem

While medicine has treated bacterial infections in one of two ways— either killing the tiny organisms or slowing down their growth— doctors may soon have yet another weapon in the fight against pathogenic bacteria. In her lab at Mount Holyoke College, biochemistry professor ...More

November 5, 2012

Posted in News

New Materials May Help Prevent Infections by Blocking Initial Bacterial Attachment

Bacteria’s ability to cling to virtually any surface is a vexing problem in the medical community. Engineering a surface that can easily slough off these dangerous bugs has, until recently, had limited success. Recently, however, a team of British researchers has discovered ...More

October 30, 2012

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

Plasma Jet Penetrates Biofilms of Superbugs

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have developed a new technique which has the potential to kill off hospital superbugs like Pseudomonas aeruginosa, C. difficile and MRSA. As revealed in the most recent edition of leading journal PloS One, the novel method uses a ...More

October 3, 2012

Posted in News

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