Article
Biofilms in ear, nose, and throat infections: how important are they?
The Laryngoscope - 1 Apr 2007
Vlastarakos Petros V, Nikolopoulos Thomas P, Maragoudakis Paul, Tzagaroulakis Antonios, Ferekidis Eleftherios
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BACKGROUND: Biofilms present a new challenging concept in sustaining chronic, common antibiotic-resistant ear, nose, and throat (ENT) infections. They are communities of sessile bacteria embedded in a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances of their own synthesis that adhere to a foreign body or a mucosal surface with impaired host defense. The aim of this paper is to review the literature on ENT diseases...
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