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| Rodney M DonlanSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Preventing biofilms of clinically relevant organisms using bacteriophageRodney M Donlan
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop C 16, 1600 Clifton Road, N E, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Trends Microbiol 17:66-72. 2009..Phage mixtures or engineered phages could provide effective strategies to overcome these obstacles. Lytic bacteriophages could become a new class of anti-biofilm agents...
Bacteriophage cocktail for the prevention of biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa on catheters in an in vitro model systemWeiling Fu
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop C 16, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:397-404. 2010..These results suggest the potential of applying phages, especially phage cocktails, to the surfaces of indwelling medical devices for mitigating biofilm formation by clinically relevant bacteria...- High-level vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with a polymicrobial biofilmLinda M Weigel
NCID DHQP ELB MS G 08, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, N E, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 51:231-8. 2007..The potential for interspecies transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes, including resistance to vancomycin, may be enhanced by the microenvironment of a biofilm... - Biofilms: microbial life on surfacesRodney M Donlan
Biofilm Laboratory, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 8:881-90. 2002..A greater understanding of biofilm processes should lead to novel, effective control strategies for biofilm control and a resulting improvement in patient management... - Biofilms: survival mechanisms of clinically relevant microorganismsRodney M Donlan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Microbiol Rev 15:167-93. 2002..In the future, treatments may be based on inhibition of genes involved in cell attachment and biofilm formation... - Structural analysis of biofilm formation by rapidly and slowly growing nontuberculous mycobacteriaMargaret M Williams
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:2091-8. 2009..This indicates that M. avium is better adapted for growth in potable water systems than in laboratory incubation conditions and suggests some advantage that MAC has over RGM in low-nutrient environments... - Chlorine inactivation of bacterial bioterrorism agentsLaura J Rose
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, C16, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:566-8. 2005..Water contaminated with spores of Bacillus anthracis spores would require further treatment... - Using bacteriophages to reduce formation of catheter-associated biofilms by Staphylococcus epidermidisJohn J Curtin
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop C-16, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 50:1268-75. 2006..epidermidis over a 24-h exposure period, suggesting the potential of bacteriophage for mitigating biofilm formation on indwelling catheters and reducing the incidence of catheter-related infections... - Biofilm elimination on intravascular catheters: important considerations for the infectious disease practitionerRodney M Donlan
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 52:1038-45. 2011..These approaches have the potential to prevent or eradicate biofilms on indwelling intravascular catheters and prevent or resolve catheter-related infections...