Microneedle arrays allow lower microbial penetration than hypodermic needles in vitro

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2513-2522

  Donnelly, Ryan F ^a   Singh, Thakur Raghu Raj ^a   Tunney, Michael M ^a   Morrow, Desmond I J ^a   McCarron, Paul A ^b   O'Mahony, Conor ^c   Woolfson, A David ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Infection; Microneedle arrays; Microorganisms; Stratum corneum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPODERMIC NEEDLE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICRONEEDLE ARRAY; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NEEDLES; PUNCTURES; SKIN; SWINE;

EID: 70350215864     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: 1573904X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11095-009-9967-2     Document Type: Article

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