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Microbicidal activity of a new silver-containing polymer, SPI-ARGENT II
G Kampf1, B Dietze, C Grosse-Siestrup
1Institut für Hygiene, Umweltmedizin und Arbeitsmedizin, Freie Universität Berlin, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|September 16, 1998
Abstract:
The survival of three bacterial species and Candida albicans was studied on SPI-ARGENT II. The immediate recovery from silver-impregnated polymer and control polymer (1 cm2) was approximately 10(6) to 10(7) microorganisms. After incubation (37 degreesC) and neutralization of silver with horse serum (5%), surviving organisms were recovered. The survival of the microorganisms on the polymer was not found to be influenced by the silver implantation.