Whilst survival rates have improved over the past few decades due to advances in modern medicine (Rafla and Tredget, 2011), infection is still the leading cause of morbidity and mortality...
Introduction: Biofilms are clinically frustrating structures because within their extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) cocoons, bacteria are protected from antimicrobial attack and nat...
BACKGROUND: Biofilms represent a major threat to health care, and it is a clinical challenge to manage infected wounds resistant to antibiotic. Persistent bacterial phenotypes such as sma...