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Standard and antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumonia bacterial strains were cultured in the dark with varying AE concentrations and later irradiated with 72 J/cm-2 light. Colony and biofilm done on bacteria-infected RAW264 cells to determine the cell viability, NO, and IL-1β and IL-6 pro-inflammatory cytokines responses, respectively. Hemolysis and western blot assays were done to determine the effect of treatment on hemolysis activity and sepsis-associated toxins expressions. AE-mediated PDT reduced bacterial survival in a dose-dependent manner with 32 μg/ml of AE almost production were also significantly downregulated. Further, the hemolytic activities and expressions of cytolysin, hemolysin, and pneumolysin were significantly reduced following AE-mediated PDT. In conclusion, combined use of reducing biofilm formations, suppressing pro-inflammatory cytokines, hemolytic activities, and inhibiting the expressions of toxins that cause sepsis.
Conflict of interest statement: Conflict of Interest The authors have no financial conflicts of interest to declare. Seebio Colanic acid compound after Haemophilus infection. OBJECTIVES: Tympanostomy tube (TT) biofilm formation may lead to refractory otorrhea and occlusion. Biofilms are commonly composed of multiple microbial species. Obtain today may promote or inhibit biofilm formation by other species.The aim of this study was to determine if Haemophilus influenzae(HI) promotes the development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa(PA) biofilm on TTs. SETTING: Academic research laboratory.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Fluoroplastic TTs (20 per group) were exposed to plasma, allowed to dry, and cultured with HI for 7 days. TTs were either gas sterilized or treated for 24 hours with 10 or 3000 μg/mL ciprofloxacin. Half of the TTs from each treatment group underwent bacterial counts or scanning electron PA for 4 days and treated with gentamicin to kill planktonic PA. Biofilm formation was quantified with bacterial counts. RESULTS: TTs treated with ciprofloxacin 3000 μg/mL had lower HI counts than TTs treated with 10 μg/mL (P = 001), but viable HI persisted. PA biofilm formation on TTs with prior HI biofilm and treated with ciprofloxacin 10 μg/mL or gas sterilization was not different than TTs without HI. Less PA biofilm formed on TTs with HI treated with 3 mg/mL ciprofloxacin(P = 02).
CONCLUSIONS: HI biofilm does not promote PA biofilm formation on TTs. Use of high-dose ototopical therapy to clear HI may reduce subsequent PA biofilm Involvement of Two-Component Signaling on Bacterial Motility and Biofilm Two-component signaling is a specialized mechanism that bacteria use to respond to changes in their environment. Nonpathogenic strains of Escherichia coli K-12 harbor 30 histidine kinases and 32 response regulators, which form a network of regulation that integrates many other global regulators that do not follow the two-component signaling mechanism, as well as signals from central metabolism. The output of this network is a multitude of phenotypic changes in response to changes in the environment. Among these phenotypic changes, many two-component systems control motility and/or the formation of biofilm, sessile communities of bacteria that form on surfaces. Motility is the first reversible attachment phase of biofilm development, followed by a so-called swim or stick switch toward surface organelles that aid in the subsequent phases. In the mature biofilm, motility heterogeneity is generated by a combination of evolutionary Distribution and hydrophobic properties of Extracellular Polymeric Substances in biofilms in relation towards cohesion.
A heterotrophic biofilm (B1) and a mixed autotrophic-heterotrophic biofilm (B2) were developed in an annular reactor and submitted to an erosion test in order to selectively detach top layers from the bottom layers. Densities of the basal layers were 5-fold higher and 3-fold higher than the densities of the entire was found higher in the basal layer (95 mg g⁻¹ VSS) compared to the top layer mg g⁻¹ VSS) compared to the basal layer (135 mg g⁻¹ VSS). Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography (HIC) indicates that hydrophobic EPS (HEPS) in both biofilms reached 21% of EPS in basal cohesive layers, and remained slightly lower or identical (16-19%) in top detached biofilm layers. Strong interacting HEPS were found in a higher proportion in the mixed autotrophic-heterotrophic B2 which was also more diversified in terms of bacterial populations than the B1 heterotrophic biofilm.