Microbicidal Activity of a New Silver-containing Polymer, SPI-ARGENT II

Overview

Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1998 Sep 16

PMID 9736580

Citations 14

Authors

G Kampf

B DIETZE

C Grosse-Siestrup

C Wendt

H Martiny

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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.

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