Positively charged biomaterials exert antimicrobial effects on gram-negative bacilli in rats

Biomaterials

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 2707-2710

  Gottenbos, Bart ^a   Van Der Mei, Henny C ^a   Klatter, Flip ^b   Grijpma, Dirk W ^c   Feijen, Jan ^c   Nieuwenhuis, Paul ^b   Busscher, Henk J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial biomaterials; Biomaterial centered infection; E. coli; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Rat model

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); POLYSACCHARIDES;

ANTIMICROBIAL EFFECT;

BIOMATERIALS;

BIOMATERIAL; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INFECTION RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT;

BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0037411397     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(03)00083-8     Document Type: Article

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