Bacterial biofilms: an emerging link to disease pathogenesis.

By M. Parsek, Pradeep K. Singh. Annual Review of Microbiology, 2003

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The Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections (2012, background): “kidney stones, infective endocarditis and chronic osteomyelitis.[51,52] In addition, quorum-sensing de-”
Bacterial Biofilm and its Role in the Pathogenesis of Disease (2020, background): “Most of what is known about the pathogenesis of endocarditis involving biofilms is learned from animal studies using rabbits [48].”
Direct detection of bacterial biofilms on the middle-ear mucosa of children with chronic otitis media. (2006, background): “Criteria proposed for characterizing biofilm infections include direct examination of an infected tissue revealing pathogenic bacteria in clusters within a matrix attached to a surface, infections localized to a particular anatomical site, and evidence of recalcitrance to antibiotic treatment despit”
Polymicrobial Interactions: Impact on Pathogenesis and Human Disease (2012, background): “Moreover, biofilms can harbor pathogens and/or microorganisms carrying antibiotic resistance genes and often cause problems with indwelling devices (17, 151, 158).”
Horizontal Gene Exchange in Environmental Microbiota (2011, background): “This increased attention to the clinical aspects of biofilm communities was primarily dictated by their role in human disease (Parsek and Singh, 2003; Fux et al., 2005; Lindsay and von Holy, 2006; Estrela et al., 2009; Kaplan, 2010).”
Extracellular DNA Chelates Cations and Induces Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms (2008, background): “aeruginosa, and indeed other bacteria, is thought to contribute to their ability to thrive in hostile host environments and result in chronic infection [3,4].”
Identification of Genes Involved in Polysaccharide-Independent Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Formation (2010, background): “aureus living in biofilms exhibit significant differences in gene expression and physiology [1], and the close proximity of organisms may also allow cooperative metabolic functions, promote horizontal gene transfer, and facilitate cell-to-cell communication [2,3].”
Specialized Persister Cells and the Mechanism of Multidrug Tolerance in Escherichia coli (2004, background): “These include infections of catheters, orthopedic devices, heart valves, urinary tract infections, and lungs of cystic fibrosis patients (37).”
Signals, Regulatory Networks, and Materials That Build and Break Bacterial Biofilms (2009, methodology): “This hypothesis is based on (i) the presence of multicellular aggregates, (ii) production of the biofilm matrix polysaccharide alginate, and (iii) resistance to antibiotic treatment (248).”
Staphylococcus aureus biofilms: recent developments in biofilm dispersal (2014, background): “…persist on host tissues, such as bone and heart valves, to cause osteomyelitis and endocarditis respectively, or on implanted materials, such as catheters, prosthetic joints, and pace makers (Parsek and Singh, 2003; Kiedrowski and Horswill, 2011; Barrett and Atkins, 2014; Chatterjee et al., 2014).”
agr-Mediated Dispersal of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms (2008, neutral): “elitis, and indwelling medical device infections [3,33].”