For a physician, treating a biofilm infection in a patient

Last updated: 7/8/2022

For a physician, treating a biofilm infection in a patient poses a significant challenge compared to treating an infection with planktonic bacteria. This is due to the fact that ______. the biofilm likely contains several different species of bacteria living in a thick, extracellular matrix that cannot be treated by routine antibiotic therapy planktonic bacteria and biofilm bacteria activate the same genes despite being a thick layer, the pH remains constant throughout the biofilm making the deep layers hard to penetrate planktonic bacteria secrete quorum-sensing proteins that interfere with the actions of the antibiotic