Investigating the chemical pathway to the formation of a single biofilm using infrared spectroscopy

Eurobiofilms 2022: A translational perspective of biofilm-related persistent infections

“…The congress continued (September 2nd) with a lecture titled “The pathogenicity of biofilms: the paradigm of chronic wounds” by Kendra Rumbaugh (Texas Tech University, US). Afterwards, the parallel session 5 on “Novel technologies to study biofilms”, chaired by Eduard Torrents (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Elena Jordana-Lluch (LOC, HUSE, Palma, Spain), inspired two publications, presented as poster at EBF 2022; the work by Crisp et al [ 13 ] describes a novel application of Infra-Red (FTIR) spectroscopy to evaluate the chemical composition of bacterial biofilms without disrupting the biofilm architecture, whereas De Bleeckere et al [ 14 ] presents a high throughput assay to assess the antimicrobial susceptibility in P. aeruginosa biofilms in the context of cystic fibrosis.…”