Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8745411 | Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Traditional antimicrobial susceptibility studies in clinical microbiology laboratories have lied on the study of planktonic form of microorganisms. However, this approach might lead to miss the biofilm characteristics and to a treatment failure. Microbiological diagnosis and antimicrobial susceptibility studies of biofilm-related infections are complex and, nowadays, represent a challenge that clinicians and microbiologists have to address as a team in the absence of consensus or standardized protocols.
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MarÃa D. Macià , José Luis del Pozo, MarÃa DÃez-Aguilar, Jesús Guinea,