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Volume 63, Issue 6

Characterization of the growth dynamics and biofilm formation of strains isolated from contaminated platelet units Free

Abstract

Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates (PCs) poses the highest transfusion-associated infectious risk, with being a predominant contaminant. Herein, the growth dynamics of 20 strains in PCs and regular media were characterized. Strains were categorized as fast (short lag phase) or slow (long lag phase) growers in PCs. All strains were evaluated for the presence of the biofilm-associated genes by PCR, their capability to produce extracellular polysaccharide (slime) on Congo red agar plates and their ability to form surface-attached aggregates (biofilms) in glucose-supplemented trypticase soy broth (TSBg) using a crystal violet staining assay. A subset of four strains (two slow growers and two fast growers) was further examined for the ability for biofilm formation in PCs. Two of these strains carried the genes, formed slime and produced biofilms in TSBg and PCs, while the other two strains, which did not carry , did not produce slime or form biofilms in TSBg. Although the two -negative slime-negative strains did not form biofilms in media, they displayed a biofilm-positive phenotype in PCs. Although all four strains formed biofilms in PCs, the two slow growers formed significantly more biofilms than the fast growers. Furthermore, growth experiments of the two -positive strains in plasma-conditioned platelet bags containing TSBg revealed that a slow grower isolate was more likely to escape culture-based screening than a fast grower strain. Therefore, this study provides novel evidence that links biofilm formation with slow growth in PCs and suggests that slow-growing biofilm-positive would be more likely to be missed with automate culture.

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Characterization of the growth dynamics and biofilm formation of Staphylococcus epidermidis strains isolated from contaminated platelet units
J. Med. Microbiol. 63, 884 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.071449-0
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