Biofilm-based implant infections in orthopaedics

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 830, Issue , 2015, Pages 29-46

  Arciola, Carla Renata ^a,b   Campoccia, Davide ^a   Ehrlich, Garth D ^c   Montanaro, Lucio ^a,b  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CELL AGGREGATION; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTERNALIZATION; JOINT PROSTHESIS; JOINT SURGERY; MATERIAL COATING; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; NONHUMAN; PERIPROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; QUORUM SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84926684117     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11038-7_2     Document Type: Article

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