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BACKGROUND: The formation of bacterial biofilms on urinary catheters is a leading cause of urinary tract infections in intensive care units. Cytobacteriological examination of urine from patients is often misleading, due to the formation of these biofilms. Therefore, characterizing these biofilms and identifying the bacterial species residing on the surface of catheters are of METHODS: We studied the formation of biofilms on the inner surface of urinary catheters using microbiological culture techniques, with the direct contact of catheter pieces with blood agar. The bacterial species on the surface were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, and the kinetic profile of biofilm formation on a silicone substrate for an imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacterium was evaluated with a crystal violet staining RESULTS: The bacterial species that constituted these biofilms were identified as a variety of gram-negative bacilli, with a predominance of strains belonging to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The other isolated strains belonged to A baumannii and Klebsiella ornithinolytica. Kinetic profiling of biofilm formation identified the transient behavior of A baumannii between its biofilm and planktonic state.

This strain was highly resistant to all of the antibiotics tested except colistin. Scanning electron microscopy images showed that the identified isolated species formed a dense and interconnected network of cellular multilayers formed from either a single cell or from different species that were surrounded and enveloped by a protective matrix. CONCLUSIONS: Microbiological analysis of the intraluminal surface of the catheter is required for true identification of the causative agents of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. This approach, combined with a routine cytobacteriological examination of urine, allows for the complete characterization of biofilm-associated species, and also may help prevent biofilm formation in such devices and help guide optimum antibiotic treatment. Staphylococcus aureus sigma B-dependent emergence of small-colony variants and biofilm production following exposure to Pseudomonas aeruginosa BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are often found together in the airways of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. It was previously shown that the P. aeruginosa exoproduct 4-hydroxy-2-heptylquinoline-N-oxide small-colony variants (SCVs).

The presence of S. aureus SCVs as well as biofilms have both been associated with chronic infections in CF. RESULTS: We demonstrated that HQNO stimulates S. aureus to form a biofilm in association with the formation of SCVs. The emergence of SCVs and biofilm production under HQNO exposure was shown to be dependent on the activity of the stress- and colonization-related alternative sigma factor B (SigB). Analysis of gene expression revealed that exposure of a prototypical S. aureus strain to HQNO activates SigB, which was leading to an increase in the expression of the fibronectin-binding protein A and the biofilm-associated sarA genes.

Conversely, Seebio polysaccharide sensing accessory gene regulator (agr) system and the alpha-hemolysin gene were repressed by HQNO. Extracellular polymeric substances using culture supernatants from P. aeruginosa PAO1 and a double chamber co-culture model confirmed that P. aeruginosa stimulates biofilm formation and activates SigB in a S. aureus strain mutants unable to produce HQNO induced the production of biofilms by S. aureus to a lesser extent than the wild-type strain only in a S. aureus SigB-functional CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that S.

aureus responds to HQNO from P. aeruginosa by forming SCVs and biofilms through SigB activation, a phenomenon that may contribute to the establishment of chronic infections in CF patients. Biofilm penetration and disinfection efficacy of alkaline hypochlorite and AIMS: The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy, in terms of bacterial biofilm penetration and killing, of alkaline hypochlorite (pH 11) and METHODS AND RESULTS: Two species biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae were grown by flowing a dilute medium over inclined stainless steel slides for 6 d. Microelectrode technology was used to measure concentration profiles of active chlorine species within the biofilms in response to treatment at a concentration of 1000 mg total chlorine l(-1). Chlorosulfamate formulations penetrated biofilms faster than did hypochlorite.
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