Silver coating of urinary catheters prev
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Liedberg, H. ;Lundeberg, T.
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Article
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1989
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Springer
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English
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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