Mechanisms of biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus: functional molecules, regulatory circuits, and adaptive responses

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Mechanisms of biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus: functional molecules, regulatory circuits, and adaptive responses. / Mack, Dietrich; Becker, Petra; Chatterjee, Indranil; Dobinsky, Sabine; Knobloch, Johannes K M; Peters, Georg; Rohde, Holger; Herrmann, Mathias.

In: INT J MED MICROBIOL, Vol. 294, No. 2-3, 2-3, 2004, p. 203-212.

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title = "Mechanisms of biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus: functional molecules, regulatory circuits, and adaptive responses",
abstract = "Biomaterial-associated infections, most frequently caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus, are of increasing importance in modern medicine. Regularly, antimicrobial therapy fails without removal of the implanted device. The most important factor in the pathogenesis of biomaterial-associated staphylococcal infections is the formation of adherent, multilayered bacterial biofilms. In this review, recent insights regarding factors functional in biofilm formation of S. epidermidis, their role in pathogenesis, and regulation of their expression are presented. Similarly, in S. aureus the biofilm mode of growth affects gene expression and the overall metabolic status. Experimental approaches for analysis of differential expression of genes involved in these adaptive responses and evolving patterns of gene expression are discussed.",
author = "Dietrich Mack and Petra Becker and Indranil Chatterjee and Sabine Dobinsky and Knobloch, {Johannes K M} and Georg Peters and Holger Rohde and Mathias Herrmann",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.1016/j.ijmm.2004.06.015",
language = "English",
volume = "294",
pages = "203--212",
journal = "INT J MED MICROBIOL",
issn = "1438-4221",
publisher = "Urban und Fischer Verlag GmbH und Co. KG",
number = "2-3",

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AU - Mack, Dietrich

AU - Becker, Petra

AU - Chatterjee, Indranil

AU - Dobinsky, Sabine

AU - Knobloch, Johannes K M

AU - Peters, Georg

AU - Rohde, Holger

AU - Herrmann, Mathias

PY - 2004

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N2 - Biomaterial-associated infections, most frequently caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus, are of increasing importance in modern medicine. Regularly, antimicrobial therapy fails without removal of the implanted device. The most important factor in the pathogenesis of biomaterial-associated staphylococcal infections is the formation of adherent, multilayered bacterial biofilms. In this review, recent insights regarding factors functional in biofilm formation of S. epidermidis, their role in pathogenesis, and regulation of their expression are presented. Similarly, in S. aureus the biofilm mode of growth affects gene expression and the overall metabolic status. Experimental approaches for analysis of differential expression of genes involved in these adaptive responses and evolving patterns of gene expression are discussed.

AB - Biomaterial-associated infections, most frequently caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus, are of increasing importance in modern medicine. Regularly, antimicrobial therapy fails without removal of the implanted device. The most important factor in the pathogenesis of biomaterial-associated staphylococcal infections is the formation of adherent, multilayered bacterial biofilms. In this review, recent insights regarding factors functional in biofilm formation of S. epidermidis, their role in pathogenesis, and regulation of their expression are presented. Similarly, in S. aureus the biofilm mode of growth affects gene expression and the overall metabolic status. Experimental approaches for analysis of differential expression of genes involved in these adaptive responses and evolving patterns of gene expression are discussed.

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