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Biofilm - an important factor of virulence in microbes isolated from immunocompromised patients and from the environment of life boxes for transplanted patients

Authors

HOLÁ Veronika RŮŽIČKA Filip HORÁKOVÁ Lenka VOTAVA Miroslav TEJKALOVÁ Renata

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference New Frontiers in the Research of PhD Students. Conference of Medical Schools in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Microbiology, virology
Keywords Life boxes - allogenic transplantation - microbial contamination - production of biofilm
Description Strains isolated from the life boxes for patients after allogenic transplantations were mainly Gram-negatives. The most frequently isolated species were Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. The ability to form biofilm was demonstrated in 71.2 % of strains isolated from life boxes and in 34.5 % of strains isolated from standard hospital unit. The difference may be caused by different sanitation mode.
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