Bacterial adhesion to surface hydrophilic and hydrophobic contact lenses

Biomaterials

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 3217-3224

  Bruinsma, G M ^a   Van Der Mei, H C ^a   Busscher, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial adhesion; Conditioning films; Contact lenses; Flow chamber; Hydrophobicity; Tear fluid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; HYDROGELS; HYDROPHILICITY; PROTEINS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION;

CONTACT LENSES;

PROTEIN;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEL; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LACRIMAL FLUID; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEAR FILM;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOFILMS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CONTACT LENSES; CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEARS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0035892450     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(01)00159-4     Document Type: Article

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