ArticleMicroorganisms2024
A Bead Biofilm Reactor for High-Throughput Growth and Translational Applications.
Article in Microorganisms, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Encapsulation in Calcium Alginate Beads Regulates Growth, Release and Viability of Probiotic Bacteria Through Protective Microenvironments.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Soil-Dwelling Bacteria Display Tolerance Against Typical Antibiotic Serum Levels in an Ex Vivo Model of Traumatized Tissue.Military medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Bacteria in natural ecosystems such as soil, dirt, or debris preferentially reside in the biofilm phenotype. When a traumatic injury, such as an open fracture, occurs, these naturally dwelling biofilms and accompanying foreign material can contaminate the injury site. Given their high tolerance of systemic levels of antibiotics that may be administered prophylactically, biofilms may contribute to difficult-to-treat infections. In most animal models, planktonic bacteria are used as initial inocula to cause infection, and this might not accurately mimic clinically relevant contamination and infection scenarios. Further, few approaches and systems utilize the same biofilm and accompanying substrate throughout the experimental continuum. In this study, we designed a unique reactor to grow bacterial biofilms on up to 50 silica beads that modeled environmental wound contaminants. The data obtained indicated that the reactor system repeatably produced mature
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