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Serum as a factor influencing adhesion of Enterococcus faecalis to glass and silicone
Amparo M Gallardo-Moreno1, M Luisa González-Martín, Ciro Pérez-Giraldo
1Department of Physics. Department of Microbiology, Extremadura University, 06071 Badajoz, Spain.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|October 31, 2002
Abstract:
The purpose of this work was to analyze the effect of serum on the physicochemical surface properties and adhesion to glass and silicone of Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212 at 37 degrees C. As is presented using thermodynamics analysis, serum minimizes the interaction of cells with water, which correlates well with the increase in hydrophobicity and in bacterial adhesion to glass and silicone.