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Acknowledgments Dr. Sougata Ghosh acknowledges the Department of Science and Technology
(DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific Research, India for funding under Post-doctoral Overseas Fellowship in Nano
Science and Technology (Ref. JNC/AO/A.0610.1(4) 2019-2260 dated August 19, 2019).
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Mulat M (2016) Antimicrobial and anti-quorum sensing activities of selected medicinal plants
of Ethiopia: implication for development of potent antimicrobial agents. BMC Microbiol
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Baelo A, Levato R, Julián E, Crespo A, Astola J, Gavaldà J, Engel E, Mateos-Timoneda MA,
Torrents E (2015) Disassembling bacterial extracellular matrix with DNase-coated nanoparticles to enhance antibiotic delivery in biofilm infections. J Control Release 209:150–158.
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Bakkiyaraj D, Nandhini JR, Malathy B, Pandian SK (2013) The anti-biofilm potential of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) extract against human bacterial and fungal pathogens. Biofouling
29(8):929–993. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2013.820825
Balaban N, Cirioni O, Giacometti A, Ghiselli R, Braunstein JB, Silvestri C, Mocchegiani F, Saba V,
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Acknowledgments Dr. Sougata Ghosh acknowledges the Department of Science and Technology
(DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific Research, India for funding under Post-doctoral Overseas Fellowship in Nano
Science and Technology (Ref. JNC/AO/A.0610.1(4) 2019-2260 dated August 19, 2019).
References
Achermann Y, Vogt M, Leunig M, Wüst J, Trampuz A (2010) Improved diagnosis of periprosthetic
joint infection by multiplex PCRof sonication fluid from removed implants. J Clin Microbiol
48(4):1208–1214. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00006-10
Ahmed D, Anwar A, Khan AK, Ahmed A, Shah MR, Khan NA (2017) Size selectivity in antibiofilm activity of 3-(diphenylphosphino)propanoic acid coated gold nanomaterials against
Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus mutans. AMB Expr 7(1):210.
https://10.1186/s13568-017-0515-x
Alemayehu D, Casey PG, McAuliffe O, Guinane CM, Martin JG, Shanahan F, Coffey A, Ross RP,
Hill C (2012) Bacteriophages ϕMR299-2 and ϕNH-4 can eliminate Pseudomonas aeruginosa
in the murine lung and on cystic fibrosis lung airway cells. MBio 3(2):e00029–e00012. https://
doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00029-12
Algburi A, Comito N, Kashtanov D, Dicks LM, Chikindas ML (2017) Control of biofilm formation: antibiotics and beyond. Appl Environ Microbiol 83(3):e02508-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/
AEM.02508-16
Alkawash MA, Soothill JS, Schiller NL (2006) Alginate lyase enhances antibiotic killing
of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa in biofilms. APMIS 114(2):131–138. https://doi.
org/10.1111/j.1600-0463.2006.apm_356.x
Anderson GG, Palermo JJ, Schilling JD, Roth R, Heuser J, Hultgren SJ (2003) Intracellular bacterial biofilm-like pods in urinary tract infections. Science 301:105–107. https://doi.org/10.1126/
science.1084550
Antoniani D, Bocci P, Maciag A, Raffaelli N, Landini P (2010) Monitoring of diguanylatecyclaseactivity and of cyclic-di-GMP biosynthesis by whole-cellassayssuitable for high-throughput
screening of biofilm inhibitors. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 85(4):1095–1104. https://doi.
org/10.1007/s00253-009-2199-x
Artini M, Papa R, Barbato G, Scoarughi GL, Cellini A, Morazzoni P, Bombardelli E, Selan L
(2012) Bacterial biofilm formation inhibitory activity revealed for plant derived natural compounds. Bioorg Med Chem 20(2):920–926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2011.11.052
Augustin M, Ali-Vehmas T, Atroshi F (2004) Assessment of enzymatic cleaning agents and disinfectants against bacterial biofilms. J Pharm Pharm Sci 7:55–64
Bacha K, Tariku Y, Gebreyesus F, Zerihun S, Mohammed A, Weiland-Bräuer N, Schmitz RA,
Mulat M (2016) Antimicrobial and anti-quorum sensing activities of selected medicinal plants
of Ethiopia: implication for development of potent antimicrobial agents. BMC Microbiol
16:139. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0765-9
Baelo A, Levato R, Julián E, Crespo A, Astola J, Gavaldà J, Engel E, Mateos-Timoneda MA,
Torrents E (2015) Disassembling bacterial extracellular matrix with DNase-coated nanoparticles to enhance antibiotic delivery in biofilm infections. J Control Release 209:150–158.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2015.04.028
Bakkiyaraj D, Nandhini JR, Malathy B, Pandian SK (2013) The anti-biofilm potential of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) extract against human bacterial and fungal pathogens. Biofouling
29(8):929–993. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2013.820825
Balaban N, Cirioni O, Giacometti A, Ghiselli R, Braunstein JB, Silvestri C, Mocchegiani F, Saba V,
Scalise G (2007) Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm infection by the quorum- sensing
B. P. Singh et al.