"Biofilms" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Encrustations, formed from microbes (bacteria, algae, fungi, plankton, or protozoa) embedding in extracellular polymers, that adhere to surfaces such as teeth (DENTAL DEPOSITS); PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; and catheters. Biofilms are prevented from forming by treating surfaces with DENTIFRICES; DISINFECTANTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; and antifouling agents.
| Descriptor ID |
D018441
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G06.120
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Biofilms" by people in this website by year, and whether "Biofilms" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2002 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2005 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2009 | 11 | 3 | 14 |
| 2010 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2013 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2016 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2020 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2023 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biofilms" by people in Profiles.
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Colomer-Winter C, Yong AMH, Chong KKL, Veleba M, Choo PY, Gao IH, Matysik A, Ho FK, Chen SL, Kline KA. The HtrA chaperone monitors sortase-assembled pilus biogenesis in Enterococcus faecalis. PLoS Genet. 2024 Aug; 20(8):e1011071.
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Dayton H, Kiss J, Wei M, Chauhan S, LaMarre E, Cornell WC, Morgan CJ, Janakiraman A, Min W, Tomer R, Price-Whelan A, Nirody JA, Dietrich LEP. Cellular arrangement impacts metabolic activity and antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. PLoS Biol. 2024 Feb; 22(2):e3002205.
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Huang M-B, Brena D, Wu JY, Shelton M, Bond VC. SMR peptide antagonizes Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Feb 06; 12(2):e0258323.
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Ajetunmobi OH, Chaturvedi AK, Badali H, Vaccaro A, Najvar L, Wormley FL, Wiederhold NP, Patterson TF, Lopez-Ribot JL. Screening the medicine for malaria venture's Pandemic Response Box to identify novel inhibitors of Candida albicans and Candida auris biofilm formation. APMIS. 2023 Nov; 131(11):613-625.
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Ramage G, Borghi E, Rodrigues CF, Kean R, Williams C, Lopez-Ribot J. Our current clinical understanding of Candida biofilms: where are we two decades on? APMIS. 2023 Nov; 131(11):636-653.
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Adedoyin FT, Sridhar BBM, Rosenzweig JA. Impact of metal exposure on environmentally isolated Serratia marcescens' growth, oxidative-stress resistance, biofilm formation, and proliferation in eukaryotic co-culture models. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2023 Mar 15; 253:114677.
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Singh S, Meador WE, Pramanik A, Ray P, Delcamp JH, Zhao Y. An indolizine squaraine-based water-soluble NIR dye for fluorescence imaging of multidrug-resistant bacteria and antibacterial/antibiofilm activity using the photothermal effect. J Photochem Photobiol B. 2023 Mar; 240:112652.
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Ajetunmobi OH, Wall G, Bonifacio BV, Montelongo-Jauregui D, Lopez-Ribot JL. A 384-Well Microtiter Plate Model for Candida Biofilm Formation and Its Application to High-Throughput Screening. Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2658:53-64.
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Sutar Y, Nabeela S, Singh S, Alqarihi A, Solis N, Ghebremariam T, Filler S, Ibrahim AS, Date A, Uppuluri P. Niclosamide-loaded nanoparticles disrupt Candida biofilms and protect mice from mucosal candidiasis. PLoS Biol. 2022 08; 20(8):e3001762.
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Tan CAZ, Lam LN, Biukovic G, Soh EY, Toh XW, Lemos JA, Kline KA. Enterococcus faecalis Antagonizes Pseudomonas aeruginosa Growth in Mixed-Species Interactions. J Bacteriol. 2022 07 19; 204(7):e0061521.