Culture Negative Orthopedic Biofilm Infections

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ehrlich, Garth D. (Editor), DeMeo, Patrick J. (Editor), Costerton, J. William (Editor), Winkler, Heinz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Series on Biofilms, 7
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Microbial ecology.; Microbiology.; Bacteriology.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Ecology.

During the recent transition between acute diseases caused by swarms of single planktonic bacteria, and chronic infections caused by bacteria growing in slime-enclosed biofilms, a general clinical consensus has emerged that pathologies with bacterial etiologies are frequently culture negative. Becau...