ArticleFolia microbiologica2020
Combination of non-thermal plasma and subsequent antibiotic treatment for biofilm re-development prevention.
Article in Folia microbiologica, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The Effect of Non-Thermal Processing on the Fate of Pathogenic Bacteria and Hidden Hazardous Risks.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Nonthermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Treatment of Endosteal Implants for Osseointegration and Antimicrobial Efficacy: A Comprehensive Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Overcoming antibiotic resistance: non-thermal plasma and antibiotics combination inhibits important pathogens.Pathogens and disease · 2024Review
- Mechanisms of bacterial inhibition and tolerance around cold atmospheric plasma.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Non-thermal plasma causesFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
- Inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli Biofilms by Air-Based Atmospheric-Pressure DBD Plasma.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2021Article
- Use of non-thermal plasma pre-treatment to enhance antibiotic action against mature Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2020Article
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Abstract
The influence of non-thermal plasma (NTP) treatment on the prevention of antibiotic resistance of microbial biofilms was studied. Staphylococcus epidermidis and Escherichia coli bacteria and a yeast Candida albicans, grown on the surface of Ti-6Al-4V alloy used in the manufacture of prosthetic implants, were employed. Their biofilms were exposed to NTP produced by DC cometary discharge and subsequently treated with antibiotics commonly used for the treatment of infections caused by them: erythromycin (ERY), polymyxin B (PMB), or amphotericin B (AMB), respectively. All biofilms displayed significant reduction of their metabolic activity after NTP exposure, the most sensitive was S. epidermidis. The subsequent action of antibiotics caused significant decrease in the metabolic activity of S. epidermidis and E. coli, but not C. albicans, although the area covered by biofilm decreased in all cases. The combined effect of NTP with antibiotics was thus proved to be a promising strategy in bacterial pathogen treatment.
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