Healthcare-associated infections resulting from persistent microbial biofilms are currently on the rise, defeating even our most advanced medications. What is your perspective on dealing with biofilm-associated illness in clinics or laboratories? Have you seen any inventive methods for combating these chronic infections? Let’s share our accomplishments stories, difficulties, and research leads.
MBH/AB
Fighting biofilm illnesses in hospitals and labs is a big problem. Biofilms are tough layers of germs that resist most medicines and our bodies defenses.
Since biofilms are too tough to tackle with conventional disinfection approaches, the best course of action is to attack the pathogen with a natural predator/ weapon such as antibiotics and bacteriophages specific to the pathogen itself, charging at the root cause. If we could integrate such elements into disinfection strategies in a safe way, it would be a true game-changer!
Biofilm infections are tough to treat. Some new methods like nanoparticles and phage therapy could really help in the future.