Bad to the Bone: On In Vitro and Ex Vivo Microbial Biofilm Ability to Directly Destroy Colonized Bone Surfaces without Participation of Host Immunity or Osteoclastogenesis

• Adam Junka,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Parasitology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Patrycja Szymczyk,

  Affiliation Center for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (CAMT/FPC), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Grzegorz Ziółkowski,

  Affiliation Center for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (CAMT/FPC), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Ewa Karuga-Kuzniewska,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases of Animals and Veterinary Administration, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Danuta Smutnicka,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Parasitology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Iwona Bil-Lula,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Marzenna Bartoszewicz,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Parasitology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Susan Mahabady ,

  * E-mail: mahabady@usc.edu

  Affiliation Center for Biofilms and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Parish Paymon Sedghizadeh

  Affiliation Center for Biofilms and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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