BBiomedSc (Hons) Project Outline 2016
... Inhibition of biofilms by MTANS Background. The presence of biofilms enables bacteria to persist on implanted medical devices despite aggressive antimicrobial therapy. Most need to be removed for the infection to be cured causing great expense and morbidity to the patient. The pathways of biofilm fo ...
... Inhibition of biofilms by MTANS Background. The presence of biofilms enables bacteria to persist on implanted medical devices despite aggressive antimicrobial therapy. Most need to be removed for the infection to be cured causing great expense and morbidity to the patient. The pathways of biofilm fo ...
Forces Holding Bacteria Together in Staphylococcal Biofilm
... multicellular arrays called biofilm. The ability of staphylococci (including MRSA) to colonize implanted medical devices such as catheters, artificial joints and heart valves is a major factor contributing to infection. Surgery is often required to remove and replace colonized devices. The bacteria ...
... multicellular arrays called biofilm. The ability of staphylococci (including MRSA) to colonize implanted medical devices such as catheters, artificial joints and heart valves is a major factor contributing to infection. Surgery is often required to remove and replace colonized devices. The bacteria ...
Studying Bacterial Biofilm Formation
... Studying Bacterial Biofilm Formation using Biological Surfaces and Varying Temperatures. It is estimated that over 80% of bacteria do not exist as single free-living organisms, but reside as multicellular communities known as biofilms. A biofilm is a group of cells attached to a surface surrounded b ...
... Studying Bacterial Biofilm Formation using Biological Surfaces and Varying Temperatures. It is estimated that over 80% of bacteria do not exist as single free-living organisms, but reside as multicellular communities known as biofilms. A biofilm is a group of cells attached to a surface surrounded b ...
LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY – BIOFILM FORMATION
... All living organisms interact with each other and may exhibit cooperative behavior. Bacteria are not an exception. Free-living cells (planctonic cells) are able to communicate to each other by using specific types of chemical compounds. Such communication processes between bacterial cells are partic ...
... All living organisms interact with each other and may exhibit cooperative behavior. Bacteria are not an exception. Free-living cells (planctonic cells) are able to communicate to each other by using specific types of chemical compounds. Such communication processes between bacterial cells are partic ...
MOL-20
... Project Title: Quorum sensing control of biofilm formation Project Summary: Biofilms are ubiquitous surface-attached bacterial communities embedded in an extracellular matrix. Biofilms can cause major problems: in medicine, biofilms are inherently resistant to antibiotics and cause chronic infection ...
... Project Title: Quorum sensing control of biofilm formation Project Summary: Biofilms are ubiquitous surface-attached bacterial communities embedded in an extracellular matrix. Biofilms can cause major problems: in medicine, biofilms are inherently resistant to antibiotics and cause chronic infection ...
Biofilms and NMR (PDF, 47.4 KB)
... When bacteria find a surface, they attach and become part of a colony of bacteria surrounded by a polymer matrix that they are responsible for producing. This combination of microbial cells and polymer matrix is the biofilm. Depending on where it is found, biofilm can be harmful or beneficial. For e ...
... When bacteria find a surface, they attach and become part of a colony of bacteria surrounded by a polymer matrix that they are responsible for producing. This combination of microbial cells and polymer matrix is the biofilm. Depending on where it is found, biofilm can be harmful or beneficial. For e ...
Biofilm
A biofilm is any group of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other on a surface. These adherent cells are frequently embedded within a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substance (EPS). Biofilm extracellular polymeric substance, which is also referred to as slime (although not everything described as slime is a biofilm), is a polymeric conglomeration generally composed of extracellular DNA, proteins, and polysaccharides. Biofilms may form on living or non-living surfaces and can be prevalent in natural, industrial and hospital settings. The microbial cells growing in a biofilm are physiologically distinct from planktonic cells of the same organism, which, by contrast, are single-cells that may float or swim in a liquid medium.Microbes form a biofilm in response to many factors, which may include cellular recognition of specific or non-specific attachment sites on a surface, nutritional cues, or in some cases, by exposure of planktonic cells to sub-inhibitory concentrations of antibiotics. When a cell switches to the biofilm mode of growth, it undergoes a phenotypic shift in behavior in which large suites of genes are differentially regulated.