In vitro antibiofilm efficacy of ertapenem, tobramycin, and moxifloxacin against biofilms grown in a glass bead or CDC Biofilm Reactor®

• Annika L. Gilmore,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Bone and Biofilm Research Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7768-8972

  ⨯
• Helena Vu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Vu, Travis Martinez, Lousili Peniata

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Bone and Biofilm Research Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  ⨯
• Travis Martinez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Vu, Travis Martinez, Lousili Peniata

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Bone and Biofilm Research Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9885-4669

  ⨯
• Lousili Peniata ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Vu, Travis Martinez, Lousili Peniata

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Bone and Biofilm Research Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  ⨯
• Brooke Kawaguchi ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  ¶‡BK and NNA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Bone and Biofilm Research Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  ⨯
• David A. Armbruster,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Depuy Synthes, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  ⨯
• Nicholas N. Ashton ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡BK and NNA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Bone and Biofilm Research Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  ⨯
• Dustin L. Williams

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dustin.williams@utah.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Bone and Biofilm Research Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  ⨯