Initial adhesion and surface growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on negatively and positively charged poly(methacrylates)
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- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine
- Vol. 10 (12) , 853-855
Abstract
The infection risk of biomaterial implants is determined by an interplay of bacterial adhesion and surface growth of the adhering organisms. In this study, we compared initial adhesion and surface...Keywords
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