Direct demonstration of bacterial biofilms on prosthetic mesh after ventral herniorrhaphy

Surgical Infections
Sandeep KathjuP Stoodley

Abstract

Prosthetic mesh is employed routinely in the treatment of ventral and parastomal hernias, but its use can lead to major complications, including infection, extrusion, and fistula. Bacterial biofilms have been posited to play a role in mesh-related infection, but although bacteria have been noted to form biofilms on mesh surfaces in vitro, they have never been visualized directly in biofilms on mesh recovered from patients experiencing infectious complications. Five patients who developed complications after ventral hernia repair with prosthetic mesh were operated on again. Explanted mesh was examined for biofilm with confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). In two cases, a novel molecular assay (the Ibis T5000) was used to characterize the biofilm-forming bacteria. The CLSM examination demonstrated adherent biofilms on mesh surfaces in all five patients. Biofilms also were noted on investing fibrous tissue. The FISH study was able to discriminate between bacterial species in polymicrobial biofilms. In two patients the Ibis T5000 detected more species of constituent biofilm bacteria than did standard culture. Removal of the mesh and reconstruction with autologous tissues or biologi...Continue Reading

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