Much of the interest in xylitol stems from its use in dentistry for prophylaxis against decay. The administration of xylitol in chewing gum and oral pastilles to schoolchildren in Finland has been the ...

Biofilm communities of bacteria present major challenges to infection treatment due to their protective matrix that fosters tolerance to antibiotics and the host immune response. Anti-biofilm ...

Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist Eleonora Secchi is researching how these slime-like protective films are formed, ...

The formation of bacterial biofilms on tissues and medical devices presents a formidable challenge to antimicrobial therapy. These structured communities embed cells in an extracellular matrix, ...

Transfer of microorganisms from the urethra to the bladder following catheter insertion. However, when the urinary tract is not affected by specific diseases, bacteria are promptly cleared by the ...

Microscopy images of bacteria strains, one, top, producing fimbriae as normal and one with high level of MEcPP unable to produce the fimbriae. If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a ...

An international research team led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has achieved a breakthrough in the field of medical microrobots by developing the world's first antibiofilm ...

Most chronic wound infections share one thing in common: the presence of biofilms, which are composed of many different microorganisms that congregate as a mass, usually on some type of surface such ...

Plastic pollution is among the gravest environmental crises facing humanity. Plastic production since 1950 has exceeded 8,300 ...

It has been reported that the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) for biofilm bacteria are 10 to 1000 times higher than the corresponding values for ...