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    Prevalence of Biofilms on Surgical Suture Segments in Wounds of Dogs, Cats, and Horses (2015)

    Art
    Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag
    Autoren
    König, L (WE 12)
    Klopfleisch, R (WE 12)
    Kershaw, O (WE 12)
    Gruber, A D (WE 12)
    Quelle
    Veterinary pathology : an internat. journal of natural and experimental disease in animals
    Bandzählung: 52
    Heftzählung: 2
    Seiten: 295 – 297
    ISSN: 0300-9858
    Sprache
    Englisch
    Verweise
    DOI: 10.1177/0300985814535609
    Pubmed: 24994621
    Kontakt
    Institut für Tierpathologie

    Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 15
    14163 Berlin
    +49 30 838 62450
    pathologie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

    Abstract / Zusammenfassung

    The formation of biofilms on surgical implants is thought to play a major role in chronic infection and wound-healing disorders and has been rarely described in veterinary medicine. Due to poor and unreliable results from bacterial culturing, histology may be an economic tool for the detection of biofilms. In this study, the prevalence of biofilms on surgical suture materials and swabs with chronic wound-healing complications in dogs, cats, and horses was assessed by histologic examination using hematoxylin and eosin, Gram, and Giemsa stains, as well as periodic acid-Schiff reaction. Of the 91 tissue samples with intralesional suture material or swab residues associated with inflammation, only 2 contained bacterial colonies arranged in an extracellular polymeric matrix consistent with a biofilm. The results of this study suggest that biofilms on suture material may occur in veterinary medicine.