Microbial Contamination and Isolator Gloves: If It All Came Down to the Size of a Hole?

Isolators play a critical role in protecting both the product and the environment, as well as the personnel involved in pharmaceutical manufacturing, analytical procedures, and sterility testing. Gloves attached to the windows and doors of the isolator are designed to facilitate intervention, testing, and safety. However, due to their inherent characteristics and vulnerability to puncture or loss of integrity, they are recognized as a significant potential source of contamination.

Focus on Bioburden Culture Media and Medical Devices.

Medical devices are a vital part of the global health care system that can have a far-reaching impact on patient treatment. Therefore, they must be sterile to ensure patient safety. The prevalent microorganism's type on a medical device, also known as "bioburden", is a useful indicator of a potential contamination source.

Anti-Biofilm Activity of a Low Weight Proteinaceous Molecule from the Marine Bacterium sp. IIIA004 against Marine Bacteria and Human Pathogen Biofilms.

bacteria are known as potential bioactive metabolite producers. Because of the need to obtain natural molecules inhibiting the bacterial biofilms, we investigated the biofilm inhibitory activity of the marine bacterium sp. IIIA004 against the pioneer surface colonizer sp.