AIMC Topic: Biofilms

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Evaluation of the Effect of Comprehensive Nursing Interventions on Plaque Control in Patients with Periodontal Disease in the Context of Artificial Intelligence.

Journal of healthcare engineering
Plaque is a bacterial biofilm that adheres to each other and exists on the tooth surface, and new plaque can continuously reform after removing it from the tooth surface. The pathogenesis of periodontal disease is related to the bacteria, the host an...

Enzyme-Photocatalyst Tandem Microrobot Powered by Urea for Escherichia coli Biofilm Eradication.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Urinary-based infections affect millions of people worldwide. Such bacterial infections are mainly caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli) biofilm formation in the bladder and/or urinary catheters. Herein, the authors present a hybrid enzyme/photocataly...

Antibiofilm activity of glycolic acid and glyoxal and their diffusion-reaction interactions with biofilm components.

Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Biofilms on food-contact surfaces act as potential reservoirs of microbial pathogens and can cause operational problems. The search for effective biofilm control agents is a significant research need. In this study, glycolic acid (GA) and glyoxal (GO...

Main-Chain Sulfonium-Containing Homopolymers with Negligible Hemolytic Toxicity for Eradication of Bacterial and Fungal Biofilms.

ACS macro letters
Antimicrobials against planktonic cells and established biofilms at low doses are in increasing demand to tackle antibiotic-resistant biofilm infections. As a promising alternative to antibiotics, cationic polymers can effectively kill planktonic mic...

Biofilm inhibition in Candida albicans with biogenic hierarchical zinc-oxide nanoparticles.

Biomaterials advances
The present study demonstrates lignin (L), fragments of lignin (FL), and oxidized fragmented lignin (OFL) as templates for the synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) viz., lignin-ZnO (L-ZnO), hierarchical FL-ZnO, and OFL-ZnO NPs. The X-ray d...

Chitosan-gum arabic embedded alizarin nanocarriers inhibit biofilm formation of multispecies microorganisms.

Carbohydrate polymers
Biofilm formation by microorganisms is a serious clinical problem that leads to drug failure. Nanocarriers (NCs) have shown good potential for controlling drug-resistant biofilms, although the effective penetration and retention of NCs in biofilms is...

Biomimetic sharkskin surfaces with antibacterial, cytocompatible, and drug delivery properties.

Biomaterials advances
Fighting with the infection is one of the most challenging and costly burdens of the healthcare system. Several types of antibiotics and antibacterial agents have been designed and used in combating this dilemma. Nevertheless, the overuse of drugs an...

Misic, a general deep learning-based method for the high-throughput cell segmentation of complex bacterial communities.

eLife
Studies of bacterial communities, biofilms and microbiomes, are multiplying due to their impact on health and ecology. Live imaging of microbial communities requires new tools for the robust identification of bacterial cells in dense and often inter-...

Swarming Aqua Sperm Micromotors for Active Bacterial Biofilms Removal in Confined Spaces.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Microscale self-propelled robots show great promise in the biomedical field and are the focus of many researchers. These tiny devices, which move and navigate by themselves, are typically based on inorganic microstructures that are not biodegradable ...

Antibiofilm Activity of α-Amylase from Bacillus subtilis and Prediction of the Optimized Conditions for Biofilm Removal by Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN).

Applied biochemistry and biotechnology
α-amylase is known to have antibiofilm activity against biofilms of both Gram positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains. Partially purified α-amylase from Bacillus subtilis was found to have inhibit biofilm formed by P. aeruginosa and S. aureus. T...