Adherence of organisms to silver-coated surfaces
β Scribed by D G Ahearn; L L May; M M Gabriel
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 950 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1476-5535
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Discs of urinary catheter material were exposed to the flow of artificial urine containing cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Within 10 h an adherent biofilm composed of the bacteria and of their exopolysaccharide products had developed on the uncoated catheter material. On the silver-coated catheter
## Abstract Titanium surfaces were coated with bovine serum albumin using carbodiimide, a crosslinking agent. The durability of the coated surfaces and the inhibitory effect of the albumin coating on bacterial adherence were tested __in vitro__ for 20 consecutive days at 37Β°C in phosphate buffered