Biofilm

A Review of Iodophors, with the Focus on Their Role in Biofilms Control

Biofilms are omnipresent in virtually all nonhealing ulcers and some consider their presence to be among the primary reasons for chronicity. Therefore, prevention and treatment of biofilm...

11/27/2019

Increased Healing Rates of Venous Leg Ulcers Treated with Native Type I Collagen Matrix Plus Polyhexamethylene Biguanide (PHMB) Antimicrobial in Addition to Standard Practices: Interim Results from the RESPOND Registry

Objective: Bacterial bioburden and biofilm can result in elevated protease activity which has been associated with prolonging the inflammatory phase, and contribute to the chronicity of v...

08/12/2019

Understanding the Effects of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilm Conditioned Media on Wound Healing Responses

Background: Majority of biofilm manifestations are associated with chronic wounds, and their presence lead to complications in these wounds which results in a longer timespan for the...

07/15/2019

Stressing the System: A Multi-model Testing Regime for Determining Antibiofilm Activity

Background: The evidence implicating biofilms as a cause for wound chronicity is substantial and growing. Biofilm topics are routinely presented at wound care conferences and compani...

05/17/2019

Diabetes Watch

Understanding The Impact Of Biofilm In The Diabetic Foot

03/25/2019

By Ann Zmuda, DPM

Over the last several years, the concept of biofilms and their relationship to wound healing and chronic wounds has gained popular interest. We have known about the normal microflora of humans, which form biofilms that are harmless and even...

Over the last several years, the...

03/25/2019

Podiatry Today

Rapid Communication

Perceptions of Wound Biofilm by Wound Care Clinicians

03/11/2019

Daniel Metcalf

Philip G. Bowler

The aim of this study was to gain a greater understanding of the perceptions of wound biofilm held by wound care clinicians.

The aim of this study was to...

03/11/2019

Wounds

Review

Time to Abandon Antimicrobial Approaches in Wound Healing: A Paradigm Shift

11/01/2018

Jeanette Sams-Dodd

Frank Sams-Dodd

This review covers the increasing evidence that infections on external surfaces have to be treated fundamentally differently to internal infections.

This review covers the...

11/01/2018

Wounds

Educational Report

Biofilm Delays Wound Healing: Reviewing the Latest Evidence

10/21/2018

BACKGROUND: Biofilm is the predominant mode of life for bacteria, and today it is implicated in numerous human conditions, including chronic wounds and wound infection.  OBJECTIVE: This review summarizes clinical and animal studies...

BACKGROUND: Biofilm is the...

10/21/2018

Wounds

Educational Report

Development and Use of a Clinical Algorithm for Wound Biofilm Identification

10/17/2018

OBJECTIVE: This report collates evidence for visual, behavioral, and clinical indicators associated with wound biofilm as well as describes the use of an algorithm to identify wounds where biofilm may have been delaying wound...

OBJECTIVE: This report collates...

10/17/2018

Wounds

Case Series

Is PASH Syndrome a Biofilm Disease?: A Case Series and Review of the Literature

08/01/2018

Joey Karim Ead

Robert J. Snyder

Jaime Wise

Cherison Cuffy

Hamed Jafary

Karen Fischborn

Two cases are presented that demonstrate the paradigmatic clinical features of PASH syndrome and its potential link as an expanding spectrum of bacterial biofilm disorder.

Two cases are presented that...

08/01/2018

Wounds