Antibiotic tolerance and resistance in biofilms

Oana Ciofu; Tim Tolker-Nielsen

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6084-9_13

Antibiotic tolerance and resistance in biofilms

Oana Ciofu, Tim Tolker-Nielsen^*

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Department of Immunology and Microbiology

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Abstract

One of the most important features of microbial biofilms is their tolerance to antimicrobial agents and components of the host immune system. The difficulty of treating biofilm infections with antibiotics is a major clinical problem. Although antibiotics may decrease the number of bacteria in biofilms, they will not completely eradicate the bacteria in vivo which may have important clinical consequences in form of relapses of the infection.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Biofilm Infections
Number of pages	15
Publisher	Springer New York
Publication date	1 Dec 2011
Pages	215-229
ISBN (Print)	9781441960832
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6084-9_13
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2011

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