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- Title
Importancia de las biopelículas en la práctica médica.
- Authors
Castrillón Rivera, Laura Estela; Ramos, Alejandro Palma; Padilla Desgarennes, María del Carmen
- Abstract
Antibiotic resistance by microorganisms, increased recurrent and intrahospital infections by medical devices contamination, and difficulty to healing wounds are some of regular problems in medical practice. Nowadays it is known that the origin of these facts is consequence of biofilm formation that these microorganisms develop as survival mechanism. Therefore it is important to know the conditions that allow its development and the possible mechanisms to prevent and control its origin.
- Subjects
ANTIBIOTICS; MICROORGANISMS; NOSOCOMIAL infections; MEDICAL equipment testing; BIOFILMS
- Publication
Dermatología Revista Mexicana, 2010, Vol 54, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0185-4038
- Publication type
Article