Evaluation of biocide activity on biofilms formed in cutting fluid employed in metal working industry / Avaliação da atividade de biocidas em biofilmes formados a partir de fluido de corte utilizado na usinagem de metais

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2006

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Biofilms are complex structures consisting of interdependent microbial species associations acting as surface colonization mechanism. Once undesirably installed at an industrial plant, biofilms contribute to contaminate many process areas, because they represent sources of microbial release and dissemination, which can deteriorate products, causing financial damages and work rebdoing, undesirable situations that can be controlled and/or prevented. However, biofilm removal represents a challenge, mainly referring to biocide type and dosage selection. Frequently, empiric approaches are used to solve this problem. The aim of the present work was to develop an in vitro experimental protocol for biofilm formation employing microbial consortia and to evaluate its susceptibility to recommended biocides. Microrganisms contaminating cutting fluid used in metalworking industry were employed as inoculum, since this is one of the main industrial segments subject to frequent biofilm formation. The adopted methodology was the recommended for the use of the MBEC? device thoroughly employed in the medical and dentistry areas for the study of isolated pathogenic microorganisms, and the study of the influence of variables such as inoculum type and concentration, incubation time and temperature for biofilm development, and sonication time for disaggregating the biofilms were focused. The achieved results showed that the established procedure for in vitro biofilm development was fully satisfactory when using the inoculum consisting of contaminated cutting fluid and that these biofilms were efficiently eradicated using non-oxidant biocide concentrations twelve times superior to those usually employed. Incubation temperature of 25 or 35°C and 48 h time period should be employed for biofilm development, while a 30 minute sonication period is recommended for disaggregating the biofilm. The isolation of the microorganisms in consortium, in the same cutting fluid, and their use for biofilm formation resulted in insufficient adhered cell numbers, indicating the occurrence of unadherent cells as well as unculturable strains, which require special culture conditions, and are essential for to reflect the original flora in the biofilm formation

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effect of antibiotics on biofilme mbec trade mark device in vitro experiments biofilms microorganismos - efeito dos antibioticos bacterial sensitivity tests metalworking industry testes de sensibilidade bacteriana cutting fluids fluidos de corte microorganisms

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