Effect of common and experimental anti-tuberculosis treatments on Mycobacterium tuberculosis growing as biofilms.

ABSTRACT: Much is known regarding the antibiotic susceptibility of planktonic cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for the lung disease tuberculosis (TB). As planktonically-grown M. tuberculosis are unlikely to be entirely representative of the bacterium during infection, we set out to determine how effective a range of anti-mycobacterial treatments were against M. tuberculosis growing as a biofilm, a bacterial phenotype known to be more resistant to antibiotic treatment. Light levels from bioluminescently-labelled M. tuberculosis H37Rv (strain BSG001) were used as a surrogate for bacterial viability, and were monitored before and after one week of treatment. After treatment, biofilms were disrupted, washed and inoculated into fresh broth and

SUBMITTER: Dalton JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5126618 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature