Quantification of major constituents of biofilms in occluded pancreatic stents.

CONCLUSION: The majority of the pancreatic stents grew polymicro-organisms, and those from patients aged >50 years showed significant deposition of protein, which is a key element in biofilm formation. Understanding the constituents of the biofilms in pancreatic stents could be very useful in developing future strategies for the prevention of biofilm formation.
PMID: 30051805 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - July 27, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Vaishnavi C, Gupta PK, Sharma M, Kochhar R Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research