Silver coating of urinary catheters prevents adherence and growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

✍ Scribed by Liedberg, H. ;Lundeberg, T.

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 208 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0300-5623
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00510525

✦ Synopsis

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 material no biofilm of Pseudomonas aeruginosa had developed.