作者: Oscar Murillo , Jaime Lora-Tamayo , Javier Ariza
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1031-7_9
关键词: Minimum bactericidal concentration 、 Intracellular bacterium 、 Foreign body 、 Prosthetic joint infection 、 Treatment options 、 Medical device 、 Medicine 、 Biofilm 、 Microbiology 、 Prosthetic valve
摘要: Difficulties in eradicating medical device-related infections are primarily related to the presence of bacterial biofilms. The foreign body can often facilitate such infections, which may be usually caused by non-aggressive microorganisms with ability form biofilms even at low inoculum size.