Silver coating of urinary catheters prevents adherence and growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Urological Research
- Vol. 17 (6) , 357-358
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00510525
Abstract
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.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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