Microbial diversity in biofilm infections of the urinary tract with the use of sonication techniques
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology |
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| Field | Microbiology, virology |
| Keywords | biofilm uroinfection polymicrobial infection |
| Description | Infections of the urinary tract account for >40% of nosocomial infections; most of these are infections in catheterized patients. Bacterial colonization of the urinary tract and catheters causes not only the particular infection but also a number of complications, for example blockage of catheters with crystallic deposits of bacterial origin, generation of gravels and pyelonephritis. Infections of urinary catheters are only rarely single-species infections. The longer a patient is catheterized, the higher the diversity of biofilm microbial communities. The aims of this study were to investigate the microbial diversity on the catheters and to compare the ability to form biofilm among isolated microbial species. The next aim was to discriminate particular causative agents of infections of the urinary tract and their importance as biofilm formers in the microbial community on the urinary catheter. |
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