MICROBIAL BIOFILMS OF WOUNDS: STATUS OF THE ISSUE

• Main Authors: A. G. Afinogenova, E. N. Darovskaya
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Vreden Russian Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics 2011-09-01
• Series: Travmatologiâ i Ortopediâ Rossii
• Subjects: biofilms; wound infection; pathogenicity islands
• Online Access: https://journal.rniito.org/jour/article/view/472

A significant amount of the data that microorganisms under natural conditions dwellings exist mainly in a kind of the difficult enough organized microbic communities which have received the name of Biofilms has by this time collected. They influence a current of chronic inflammatory diseases, and recently obtained data forms the basis to assume that Bioflms also play an essential role in disturbance of a current of processes of healing of chronic wounds. Biofilms possess high level of tolerance to antibodies, antibiotics, antiseptics, disinfectants and phagocytes. Methods of treatment of wounds with Biofilms include obligatory frequent clearing of a wound together with usage of wound coverings and antimicrobial agents for prevention of reinfection and suppression of reforming of Biofilms.