Electrolysis of Bacterial Biofilm

Biofilms are a significant global health problem and are of most important clinical impediments of the century. Biofilms play a crucial role in antimicrobial resistance and chronic infections by acting as reservoir for microorganisms. Therefore greater understanding of biofilm and novel methods to e...

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Published in:bioRxiv
Main Authors: Bazargani, Abdollah, Azimi, Arsalan, Farhadi, Pouya, Irvani, Seyed Sina Naghibi, Moatari, Psalm
Format: Paper
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 27.05.2021
Edition:1.1
Subjects:
Microbiology
Biofilm
Chronic infection
Antimicrobial resistance
Electrolysis
ISSN:2692-8205
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Summary:Biofilms are a significant global health problem and are of most important clinical impediments of the century. Biofilms play a crucial role in antimicrobial resistance and chronic infections by acting as reservoir for microorganisms. Therefore greater understanding of biofilm and novel methods to eliminate them are needed. We considered electrolysis as a contrivance to decompose and disperse the Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm in microtiter dishes. We showed electrolysis effectively eliminated the Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm with the potential to change our approach in tackling biofilms.
Bibliography:Competing Interest Statement: The authors have declared no competing interest.
ISSN:2692-8205
DOI:10.1101/2021.05.27.445919