Surg Infect (Larchmt)
October 2024
A 27-year-old female underwent bilateral mastectomy with left axillary dissection and had immediate breast reconstruction with textured silicone implants and acellular dermal graft (ADG) reinforcement of the inferior quadrants. The patient was maintained on oral antibiotics postoperatively and initially did well. However, she subsequently presented with fever, erythema, and tenderness in the left chest and was admitted for intravenous antibiotic therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProspective observational cohort study. To determine whether biofilms exist on spinal instrumentation recovered during revision surgery in which microbial cultures were negative. Biofilm bacteria are extremely difficult to detect by conventional culture methods used in the standard hospital setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe primary aims of this study were to determine if any correlation exists in cases of fracture fixation among: (1) bacterial profiles recovered from the instrumentation and adjacent tissues; (2) the type of orthopedic injury; and (3) the clinical outcome-union versus nonunion. A secondary goal was to compare culture and molecular diagnostics for identifying the bacterial species present following fracture fixation. Single-institution, prospective case-control cohort study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite precautions, surgical procedures carry risk of infection. Radiation-protective lead aprons worn by operating personnel are a potential source of bacterial contamination and have not been fully evaluated.
Aim/objective: To evaluate lead aprons as a source of bacterial contamination, identify organisms most commonly found on this source, and devise a method with which to lower the risk of contamination.
Surgical meshes have become the standard procedure for a variety of surgical applications with 20 million meshes being implanted each year. The popularity of mesh usage among surgeons is backed by the multiple studies that support its functionality as a tool for improving surgical outcomes. However, their use has also been associated with infectious surgical complications and many surgeons have turned to biologic meshes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStreptococcus pneumoniae displays increased resistance to antibiotic therapy following biofilm formation. A genome-wide search revealed that SP 0320 and SP 0675 (respectively annotated as 5-keto-D-gluconate-5-reductase and glucose dehydrogenase) contain the highest degree of homology to CsgA of Myxococcus xanthus, a signaling factor that promotes cell aggregation and biofilm formation. Single and double SP 0320 and SP 0675 knockout mutants were created in strain BS72; however, no differences were observed in the biofilm-forming phenotypes of mutants compared to the wild type strain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Biofilm on the surface of endotracheal tubes (ETTs) is associated with ventilator-associated pneumonia. The use of silver-coated ETTs has been suggested to reduce the occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia by preventing biofilm formation. However, mucus accumulation can reduce the antibacterial activity of silver-coated ETTs by isolating bacterial colonies from the silver surface.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Preliminary studies have identified known bacterial pathogens in the knees of patients with osteoarthritis (OA) before arthroplasty.
Aims: The current study was designed to determine the incidence and types of bacteria present in the synovial fluid of native knee joints from adult patients with diagnoses of septic arthritis and OA.
Patients And Methods: Patients were enrolled between October 2010 and January 2013.
Background: Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize known molecules from microbes and have an established role in tumorigenesis. Using a rat model of esophageal adenocarcinoma, and human clinical samples, we investigated genes central to TLR-mediated signal transduction and characterized the esophageal microbiome across the spectrum of esophageal adenocarcinoma carcinogenesis.
Methods: We surgically induced bile/acid reflux in rats and their esophagi were harvested at 40 weeks post-surgery.
Biofilms are etiologically important in the development of chronic medical and dental infections. The biofilm extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) determines biofilm structure and allows bacteria in biofilms to adapt to changes in mechanical loads such as fluid shear. However, EPS components are difficult to visualize microscopically because of their low density and molecular complexity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Novel microbial detection technologies have revealed that chronic bacterial biofilms, which are recalcitrant to antibiotic treatment, are common in failed orthopedic procedures.
Questions: Are bacteria present on failed anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions? Is there a difference in the presence or nature of bacteria in failed ACL reconstructions relative to a control set of healthy ACL's?
Methods: We used a case-control study design, where we analyzed the bacterial composition of 10 failed ACL reconstructions and compared it to 10 native ACL's harvested during total knee arthroplasty. The IBIS Universal Biosensor was used to determine the nature of bacteria on ACL specimens, and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to visualize bacteria in a subset of cases.
Background: Prosthetic mesh is employed routinely in the treatment of ventral and parastomal hernias, but its use can lead to major complications, including infection, extrusion, and fistula. Bacterial biofilms have been posited to play a role in mesh-related infection, but although bacteria have been noted to form biofilms on mesh surfaces in vitro, they have never been visualized directly in biofilms on mesh recovered from patients experiencing infectious complications.
Methods: Five patients who developed complications after ventral hernia repair with prosthetic mesh were operated on again.
Surg Infect (Larchmt)
October 2014
Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) has been estimated to occur in up to 5% of all procedures, accounting for up to 0.5% of all hospital costs. Bacterial biofilms residing on implanted foreign bodies have been implicated as contributing or causative factors in a wide variety of infectious scenarios, but little consideration has been given to the potential for implanted, submerged suture material to act as a host for biofilm and thus serve as a nidus of infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfection is a major complication of total joint arthroplasty (TJA) surgery, and even though it is now as low as 1 % in some hospitals, the increasing number of primary surgeries translates to tens of thousands of revisions due to prosthetic joint infection (PJI). In many cases the only solution is revision surgery in which the hardware is removed. This process is extremely long and painful for patients and is a considerable financial burden for the health-care system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtracellular DNA (eDNA) is an important component of the extracellular polymeric substance matrix and is important in the establishment and persistence of Staphylococcus aureus UAMS-1 biofilms. The aim of the study was to determine the temporal expression of genes involved in early biofilm formation and eDNA production. We used qPCR to investigate expression of agrB, which is associated with secreted virulence factors and biofilm dispersal, cidA, which is associated with biofilm adherence and genomic DNA release, and alsS, which is associated with cell lysis, eDNA release and acid tolerance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To identify the presence of bacterial biofilms in nonunions comparing molecular techniques (multiplex polymerase chain reaction and mass spectrometry, fluorescent in situ hybridization) with routine intraoperative cultures.
Methods: Thirty-four patients with nonunions were scheduled for surgery and enrolled in this ongoing prospective study. Intraoperative specimens were collected from removed implants, surrounding tissue membrane, and local soft tissue followed by standard culture analysis, Ibis's second generation molecular diagnostics (Ibis Biosystems), and bacterial 16S rRNA-based fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
Stainless steel 316L (SS316L) is a common material used in orthopedic implants. Bacterial colonization of the surface and subsequent biofilm development can lead to refractory infection of the implant. Since the greatest risk of infection occurs perioperatively, strategies that reduce bacterial adhesion during this time are important.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe human short PLUNC1 (SPLUNC1) protein has been identified as a component of the pulmonary antimicrobial response based on its structural similarity to the bactericidal/permeability-increasing (BPI) protein. Using a genetically modified mouse model, we recently verified the antimicrobial activity of SPLUNC1 against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in vivo. To further define the mechanism of epithelial SPLUNC1-mediated antibacterial action, we carried out studies to determine how SPLUNC1 protects the host from acute respiratory infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFEMS Immunol Med Microbiol
July 2012
We examined the ability of three clinical bacterial isolates to form mixed biofilms on surgical polypropylene mesh (PPM) in vitro. The three strains--Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, and Enterobacter cloacae--were isolated from a patient with an infected PPM. Staphylococcus aureus and E.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFEMS Immunol Med Microbiol
June 2011
Bacterial biofilms have been observed in many prosthesis-related infections, and this mode of growth renders the infection both difficult to treat and especially difficult to detect and diagnose using standard culture methods. We (1) tested a novel coupled PCR-mass spectrometric (PCR-MS) assay (the Ibis T5000) on an ankle arthroplasty that was culture negative on preoperative aspiration and then (2) confirmed that the Ibis assay had in fact detected a viable multispecies biofilm by further micrographic and molecular examinations, including confocal microscopy using Live/Dead stain, bacterial FISH, and reverse-transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR) assay for bacterial mRNA. The Ibis technology detected Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and the methicillin resistance gene mecA in soft tissues associated with the explanted hardware.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFEMS Immunol Med Microbiol
March 2011
The detection and identification of bacteria present in natural and industrial ecosystems is now entirely based on molecular systems that detect microbial RNA or DNA. Culture methods were abandoned, in the 1980s, because direct observations showed that <1% of the bacteria in these systems grew on laboratory media. Culture methods comprise the backbone of the Food and Drug Administration-approved diagnostic systems used in hospital laboratories, with some molecular methods being approved for the detection of specific pathogens that are difficult to grow in vitro.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExternal ventricular drains (EVD) are associated with a high infection rate. Early detection of infection is frequently problematic due to a lack of clinical signs and the time period required for culturing. Bacterial biofilms have been suggested to play an important role in the infection of EVD, but direct evidence is as yet lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFEMS Immunol Med Microbiol
August 2010
Bacterial biofilms have been implicated in multiple clinical scenarios involving infection of implanted foreign bodies, but have been little studied after hernia repair. We now report a case of revision inguinal herniorrhaphy complicated by chronic pain at the operated site without any external indication of infection. Computed tomographic imaging revealed a contrast-enhancing process in the left groin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of the study was to study the efficacy of 2 different lasers in vitro, in disrupting biofilm and killing planktonic pathogenic bacteria.
Materials And Methods: Biofilms of a stable bioluminescent of Staphylococcus aureus Xen 31 were grown in a 96-well microtiter plate for 3 days. The study included 7 arms: (a) control; (b) ciprofloxacin (3 mg/L, the established minimum inhibitory concentration [MIC]) alone; (c) shock wave (SW) laser alone; (d) near-infrared (NIR) laser alone; (e) SW laser and ciprofloxacin; (f) SW and NIR lasers; (g) SW, NIR lasers, and ciprofloxacin.