Inhibiting Hospital Acquired Infections without Antibiotics
July 26, 2022 | Terry Sharrer
UCLA engineers have created a material that inhibits bacterial growth on catheters, stents, heart valves and pacemakers. “The new approach, tested in both laboratory and clinical settings, involves depositing a thin layer of what is known as zwitterionic material on the surface of a device and permanently binding that layer to the underlying substrate using ultraviolet light irradiation. The resulting barrier prevents bacteria and other potentially harmful organic materials from adhering to the surface and causing infection.” MORE
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