Initial adhesion and surface growth of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa on biomedical polymers

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 208-214

  Gottenbos, Bart ^a   Van Der Mei, Henny C ^a   Busscher, Henk J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial adhesion; Bacterial surface growth; Biofilm formation; Biomaterial centered infections; Parallel plate flow chamber

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; GROWTH KINETICS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SURFACE PROPERTIES; WETTING;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL SURFACE GROWTH; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BIOPOLYMERS;

DIMETICONE; POLITEF; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYURETHAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; IMPLANT; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; POLYMERS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0034000725     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(200005)50:2<208::AID-JBM16>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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