Evaluation of New Glass Slide and Petri Dish Methods of Biofilm Testing in Uropathogenic Bacteria and Their Comparison with Test-Tube Method

Biofilms are produced by many uropathogens and they render the drugs ineffective even if antibiotics are effective against the big in vivo. In this study we evaluated the biofilm forming potential of the uropathogenic bacteria by the test tube method and compared 2 new methods with it, which were the glass Petri dish method and glass slide method. We found that the glass petri dish method was as good as, if not better than Test tube method to detect biofilms in uropathogenic bacteria. The slide method was neither very sensitive specific. Also, biofilms in test tube method could be observed microscopically. So these can be explored further by researchers later on.