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Journal of Microbiology and Pathology

Journal of Microbiology and Pathology

ISSN: 2952-8119

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Microbial Adhesion

In the last decades, different techniques have been developed to prevent microbial adhesion to biomaterial surfaces. Most of these techniques involve changing the chemistry of the biomaterial surface. Surface load, hydrophobicity, and hydrophilicity strongly influence the degree of microbial adhesion. In general, hydrophilic and negatively charged surfaces prevent bacterial activity by inhibiting bacterial adhesion. The researchers first discovered this phenomenon while studying the effect of increased hydrophobia and loading on adhesion of three different strains of Escherichia coli on different poly (methacrylate) surfaces. In this study, it was found that significantly more bacteria adhered to more hydrophobic and positively charged surfaces than to negatively charged and hydrophilic surfaces (Harkes et al., 1991). This was one of the first findings that led researchers to develop many different surface coatings. Today, the most commonly used hydrophilic coatings are based on polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polyethylene oxide (PEO).

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