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Mechanisms and clinical relevance of bacterial adhesion to polymers
B Jansen1, G Peters, G Pulverer
1Hygiene-Institute, University of Cologne, FRG.
Journal of Biomaterials Applications
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
The mechanisms of bacterial adhesion to polymers with regard to their significance in the development of foreign-body infections are discussed. The morphological, physico-chemical and biological aspects are treated with special emphasis on the adhesion of coagulase-negative staphylococci to medical polymers. Strategies for the prevention of bacterial adhesion to biomaterials by developing antiadhesive polymers are given.