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Implications for clinical care
| • Biofilm infections are difficult to diagnose by conventional sampling and microbiology methods |
| • Biofilm infections are likely to relapse or fail to respond to antimicrobial therapy |
| • Conventional antimicrobial susceptibility testing does not predict clinical and microbiological responses to treatment |
