Open AccessCharacterization of the mechanism and impact of staphylokinase on the formation of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus polymicrobial biofilms
Author(s) -
Haiyang Liu,
Huale Chen,
Yao Sun,
Xiaoxiao Zhang,
Hong Lu,
Jiahui Li,
Jianming Cao,
Tieli Zhou
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology/journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/jmm.0.000914
Subject(s) - biofilm , microbiology and biotechnology , candida albicans , staphylococcus aureus , corpus albicans , biology , staphylokinase , hypha , antimicrobial , bacteria , chemistry , genetics
Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus can be co-isolated in biofilm-associated infections. However, treatments have not been well established due to a lack of antibiofilm strategies. Hence, this study aims to characterize the mechanism and impact of Staphylokinase (Sak) on fungal-bacterial polymicrobial biofilms.