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Krasowski G, Migdał P, Woroszyło M, Fijałkowski K, Chodaczek G, Czajkowska J, Dudek B, Nowicka J, Oleksy-Wawrzyniak M, Kwiek B, Paleczny J, Brożyna M, Junka A. The Assessment of Activity of Antiseptic Agents against Biofilm of Staphylococcus aureus Measured with the Use of Processed Microscopic Images. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232113524. [PMID: 36362310 PMCID: PMC9658380 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232113524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Staphylococcal biofilms are major causative factors of non-healing wound infections. Their treatment algorithms recommend the use of locally applied antiseptic agents to counteract the spread of infection. The efficacy of antiseptics against biofilm is assessed in vitro by a set of standard quantitative and semi-quantitative methods. The development of software for image processing additionally allowed for the obtainment of quantitative data from microscopic images of biofilm dyed with propidium iodine and SYTO-9 reagents, differentiating dead cells from live ones. In this work, the method of assessment of the impact of antiseptic agents on staphylococcal biofilm in vitro, based on biofilms’ processed images, was proposed and scrutinized with regard to clinically relevant antiseptics, polyhexanide, povidone–iodine and hypochlorite. The standard quantitative culturing method was applied to validate the obtained data from processed images. The results indicated significantly higher activity of polyhexanide and povidone–iodine than hypochlorite against staphylococcal biofilm. Taking into account the fact that in vitro results of the efficacy of antiseptic agents against staphylococcal biofilm are frequently applied to back up their use in hospitals and ambulatory units, our work should be considered an important tool; providing reliable, quantitative data in this regard.
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Affiliation(s)
| | - Paweł Migdał
- Department of Environment Hygiene and Animal Welfare, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, 25 C.K. Norwida St., 51-630 Wroclaw, Poland
| | - Marta Woroszyło
- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Piastów 45, 70-311 Szczecin, Poland
| | - Karol Fijałkowski
- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Piastów 45, 70-311 Szczecin, Poland
| | - Grzegorz Chodaczek
- Bioimaging Laboratory, Łukasiewicz Research Network—PORT Polish Center for Technology Development, 54-066 Wrocław, Poland
| | - Joanna Czajkowska
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Łukasiewicz Research Network–PORT Polish Center for Technology Development, 54-066 Wrocław, Poland
| | - Bartłomiej Dudek
- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wrocław, Stanisława Przybyszewskiego 63, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland
| | - Joanna Nowicka
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland
| | - Monika Oleksy-Wawrzyniak
- Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy Wrocław Medical University, 50-556 Wrocław, Poland
| | - Bartłomiej Kwiek
- Faculty of Medicine, Lazarski University, 02-662 Warszawa, Poland
| | - Justyna Paleczny
- Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy Wrocław Medical University, 50-556 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy Wrocław Medical University, 50-556 Wrocław, Poland
| | - Adam Junka
- Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy Wrocław Medical University, 50-556 Wrocław, Poland
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