Microbial Biofilms in Urinary Tract Infections and Prostatitis: Etiology, Pathogenicity, and Combating strategies

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most important causes of morbidity and health care spending affecting persons of all ages. Bacterial biofilms play an important role in UTIs, responsible for persistent infections leading to recurrences and relapses. UTIs associated with microbial biofi...

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Autores principales: Delcaru, Cristina, Alexandru, Ionela, Podgoreanu, Paulina, Grosu, Mirela, Stavropoulos, Elisabeth, Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen, Lazar, Veronica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27916925
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens5040065
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author Delcaru, Cristina
Alexandru, Ionela
Podgoreanu, Paulina
Grosu, Mirela
Stavropoulos, Elisabeth
Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen
Lazar, Veronica
author_facet Delcaru, Cristina
Alexandru, Ionela
Podgoreanu, Paulina
Grosu, Mirela
Stavropoulos, Elisabeth
Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen
Lazar, Veronica
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description Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most important causes of morbidity and health care spending affecting persons of all ages. Bacterial biofilms play an important role in UTIs, responsible for persistent infections leading to recurrences and relapses. UTIs associated with microbial biofilms developed on catheters account for a high percentage of all nosocomial infections and are the most common source of Gram-negative bacteremia in hospitalized patients. The purpose of this mini-review is to present the role of microbial biofilms in the etiology of female UTI and different male prostatitis syndromes, their consequences, as well as the challenges for therapy.
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spelling pubmed-51981652017-01-04 Microbial Biofilms in Urinary Tract Infections and Prostatitis: Etiology, Pathogenicity, and Combating strategies Delcaru, Cristina Alexandru, Ionela Podgoreanu, Paulina Grosu, Mirela Stavropoulos, Elisabeth Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen Lazar, Veronica Pathogens Review Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most important causes of morbidity and health care spending affecting persons of all ages. Bacterial biofilms play an important role in UTIs, responsible for persistent infections leading to recurrences and relapses. UTIs associated with microbial biofilms developed on catheters account for a high percentage of all nosocomial infections and are the most common source of Gram-negative bacteremia in hospitalized patients. The purpose of this mini-review is to present the role of microbial biofilms in the etiology of female UTI and different male prostatitis syndromes, their consequences, as well as the challenges for therapy. MDPI 2016-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5198165/ /pubmed/27916925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens5040065 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Delcaru, Cristina
Alexandru, Ionela
Podgoreanu, Paulina
Grosu, Mirela
Stavropoulos, Elisabeth
Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen
Lazar, Veronica
Microbial Biofilms in Urinary Tract Infections and Prostatitis: Etiology, Pathogenicity, and Combating strategies
title Microbial Biofilms in Urinary Tract Infections and Prostatitis: Etiology, Pathogenicity, and Combating strategies
title_full Microbial Biofilms in Urinary Tract Infections and Prostatitis: Etiology, Pathogenicity, and Combating strategies
title_fullStr Microbial Biofilms in Urinary Tract Infections and Prostatitis: Etiology, Pathogenicity, and Combating strategies
title_full_unstemmed Microbial Biofilms in Urinary Tract Infections and Prostatitis: Etiology, Pathogenicity, and Combating strategies
title_short Microbial Biofilms in Urinary Tract Infections and Prostatitis: Etiology, Pathogenicity, and Combating strategies
title_sort microbial biofilms in urinary tract infections and prostatitis: etiology, pathogenicity, and combating strategies
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27916925
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens5040065
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