Figure 2.

Biofilms associated to medical devices and chronic diseases and the most prevalent microorganisms for each device or disease (Donlan and Costerton, 2002; Stoica et al., 2017; Del Pozo, 2018). A. calcoaceticus, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus; A. naeslundii, Actinomyces naeslundii; B. cepacia, Burkholderia cepacia; B. intermedius, Byrrhodes intermedius; C. albicans, Candida albicans; CoNS, Coagulase-negative staphylococci; E. coli, Escherichia coli; E. aerogenes, Enterobacter aerogenes; E. faecalis, Enterococcus faecalis; F. nucleatum, Fusobacterium nucleatum; H. aphrophilus, Haemophilus aphrophilus; H. influenzae, Haemophilus influenzae; K. pneumoniae, Klebsiella pneumoniae; M. catarrhalis, Moraxella catarrhalis; M. morganii, Morganella morganii; P. aeruginosa, Pseudomonas aeruginosa; P. anaerobius, Peptostreptococcus anaerobius; P. micros, Peptostreptococcus micros; S. aureus, Staphylococcus aureus; S. epidermidis, Staphylococcus epidermidis; S. haemolyticus, Staphylococcus haemolyticus; S. hominis, Staphylococcus hominis; S. maltophilia, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia; S. pneumoniae, Streptococcus pneumoniae; S. spuntigena, Selenomonas sputigena.