Erschienen in:
03.10.2016 | Editorial (by Invitation)
Occult shunt infections—think of biofilms
verfasst von:
Zvi Harry Rappaport
Erschienen in:
Acta Neurochirurgica
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Ausgabe 12/2016
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Excerpt
In this issue of Acta Neurochirurgica, Mounier et al. [
1] describe a case of a biofilm-associated infection of a ventricular catheter that was removed from a patient with shunt malfunction. All the commonly measured inflammatory parameters and CSF cultures were negative. Scanning electron microscopy of the shunt tubing demonstrated bacterial cocci embedded in a polymeric matrix. …