A critical investigation into the antibiotic sterilization of heart valve homografts
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- 1 July 1974
- Vol. 29 (4) , 432-436
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.29.4.432
Abstract
Waterworth, Pamela M., Lockey, Eunice, Berry, E. M., and Pearce, Helen M. (1974).Thorax, 29, 432-436. A critical investigation into the antibiotic sterilization of heart valve homografts. Sterility tests of homograft heart valves sterilized by antibiotics were found to be invalidated by carry-over of the antibiotics. A method was devised to test the efficacy of different antibiotic mixtures using membrane filters. Fifty-five organisms, including 13 species, were tested, and sterility was achieved with only 35.Keywords
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