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Roscini L, Vassiliou A, Corte L, et al. Yeast Biofilm as a Bridge Between Medical and Environmental Microbiology Across Different Detection Techniques. Infect Dis Ther. 2018;7:27-34doi: 10.1007/s40121-018-0191-4.
Roscini, L., Vassiliou, A., Corte, L., Casagrande Pierantoni, D., Robert, V., Tascini, C., Mattana, S., Alunni Cardinali, M., Orfanos, S. E., Fioretto, D., & Cardinali, G. (2018). Yeast Biofilm as a Bridge Between Medical and Environmental Microbiology Across Different Detection Techniques. Infectious diseases and therapy, 727-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40121-018-0191-4
Roscini, Luca, et al. "Yeast Biofilm as a Bridge Between Medical and Environmental Microbiology Across Different Detection Techniques." Infectious diseases and therapy vol. 7 (2018): 27-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40121-018-0191-4
Roscini L, Vassiliou A, Corte L, Casagrande Pierantoni D, Robert V, Tascini C, Mattana S, Alunni Cardinali M, Orfanos SE, Fioretto D, Cardinali G. Yeast Biofilm as a Bridge Between Medical and Environmental Microbiology Across Different Detection Techniques. Infect Dis Ther. 2018 Mar;7:27-34. doi: 10.1007/s40121-018-0191-4. Epub 2018 Mar 16. PMID: 29549654; PMCID: PMC5856731.
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Infect Dis Ther. 2018 Mar;7:27-34. doi: 10.1007/s40121-018-0191-4. Epub 2018 Mar 16.

Yeast Biofilm as a Bridge Between Medical and Environmental Microbiology Across Different Detection Techniques.

Infectious diseases and therapy

Luca Roscini, Alice Vassiliou, Laura Corte, Debora Casagrande Pierantoni, Vincent Robert, Carlo Tascini, Sara Mattana, Martina Alunni Cardinali, Stylianos E Orfanos, Daniele Fioretto, Gianluigi Cardinali

Affiliations

  1. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
  2. First Department of Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Services, Evangelismos Hospital, Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  3. Westerdijk Institute of Fungal Diversity, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  4. First Division of Infectious Diseases, Cotugno Hospital, Naples, Italy.
  5. Department of Physics and Geology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
  6. Second Department of Critical Care, Attikon Hospital, Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  7. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. [email protected].
  8. CEMIN-Excellence Research Center, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. [email protected].

PMID: 29549654 PMCID: PMC5856731 DOI: 10.1007/s40121-018-0191-4

Abstract

Medical and environmental microbiology have two distinct, although very short, histories stemming, the first from the pioneering works of Sommelweiss, Pasteur, Lister and Koch, the second mainly from the studies of Bejerink and Winogradsky. These two branches of microbiology evolved and specialized separately producing distinct communities and evolving rather different approaches and techniques. The evidence accumulated in recent decades indicate that indeed most of the medically relevant microorganisms have a short circulation within the nosocomial environment and a larger one involving the external, i.e. non-nosocomial, and the hospital environments. This evidence suggests that the differences between approaches should yield to a convergent approach aimed at solving the increasing problem represented by infectious diseases for the increasingly less resistant human communities. Microbial biofilm is one of the major systems used by these microbes to resist the harsh conditions of the natural and anthropic environment, and the even worse ones related to medical settings. This paper presents a brief outline of the converging interest of both environmental and medical microbiology toward a better understanding of microbial biofilm and of the various innovative techniques that can be employed to characterize, in a timely and quantitative manner, these complex structures. Among these, micro-Raman along with micro-Brillouin offer high hopes of describing biofilms both at the subcellular and supercellular level, with the possibility of characterizing the various landscapes of the different biofilms. The possibility of adding a taxonomic identification of the cells comprising the biofilm is a complex aspect presenting several technical issues that will require further studies in the years to come.

Keywords: Biofilm; Candida; Environmental microbiology; Medical microbiology; Micro-Brillouin; Micro-Raman; Yeasts

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