Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Biofilm Infections—How to Proceed?
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Biofilm".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 2122
Editors
2. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: biofilms; chronic infection; P. aeruginosa; antibiotic resistance mechanisms
2. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: biofilm; microbiology; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; bacteria and immunology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ESCMID guidelines of diagnosis and treatment of biofilm infections were published in 2015 [1] and the need for new methods and research was discussed in 2023 [2]. The purpose of this Special Issue is, therefore, to invite biofilm scientists to publish original articles or survey articles regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of medical biofilm infections. Such articles may include in vitro experiments or animal experiments with clear clinical possibilities of reaching clinical fase 2 trials, or the articles that show promising or convincing in vivo clinical results of new diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic methods, which can then be investigated in larger clinical trials. The submitted methods and articles should emphasize how planktonic and biofilm infections can be reliably differentiated by the new methods, which can be used for early biofilm infections (infections lasting days or weeks) and/or ‘old’ biofilm infections (old infections lasting months or years).
We look forward to your submissions.
- N. Høiby, T. Bjarnsholt, C. Moser, GL Bassi, T. Coenye, G. Donelli, L. Hall-Stoodley, V. Holá, C. Imbert, K. Kirketerp-Møller, D. Lebeaux, A. Oliver, A. J. Ullmann and C. Williams for the ESCMID Study Group for Biofilms (ESGB) and consulting external expert Werner Zimmerli.: ESCMID* guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of biofilm infections 2014. Clin. Microbiol Infect. 21, Supplementum 1: 1-26; 2015.
- Høiby, N., Moser, C., Oliver, A., Williams, C., Ramage, G., Borghi, E., Azeredo, J., Macia, M.D. for the ESGB.: Time to update the ESCMID Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of biofilm infections? Biofilm, June 2023. doi.org./10.1016/j.biofilm.2023100135.
Prof. Dr. Niels Høiby
Prof. Dr. Claus Moser
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biofilm
- biofilm infections
- chronic infections
- foreign body infections
- implant infections
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