In vitro effect of synovial fluid from patients undergoing arthroplasty surgery on MRSA biofilm formation.
Narayan PantSteven C WallisJason Alexander RobertsDamon P EisenPublished in: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (2022)
Synovial fluid containing cefazolin inhibited biofilm- and planktonic-state MRSA cultures. This may explain the apparent effect of cefazolin in the prevention of MRSA PJI.
Keyphrases
- staphylococcus aureus
- biofilm formation
- methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
- patients undergoing
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- candida albicans
- minimally invasive
- escherichia coli
- coronary artery bypass
- magnetic resonance imaging
- cystic fibrosis
- diffusion weighted imaging
- surgical site infection
- percutaneous coronary intervention