6) In a report to the New York Ophthalmological Society in 1912, Knapp noted that some patients who underwent cataract surgery later manifested clinical signs of dystrophia epithelialis with stromal and epithelial oedema, as described by Fuchs; (7) this is now known as pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK), which is a complication of cataract ...
A biofilm is any group of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS).
It is to this so-called âconditioning filmâ that the first cells of the insipient biofilm attach. Such conditioning films begin to form so rapidly, perhaps in seconds, that there is a question as to whether bacteria can attach to a barren substrate lacking such a film.