Antibacterial activity testing methods for hydrophobic patterned surfaces

Abstract One strategy to decrease the incidence of hospital-acquired infections is to avoid the survival of pathogens in the environment by the development of surfaces with antimicrobial activity. To study the antibacterial behaviour of active surfaces, different approaches have been developed of wh...

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Autores principales: Ana Perez-Gavilan, Joana Vieira de Castro, Ainara Arana, Santos Merino, Aritz Retolaza, Sofia A. Alves, Achille Francone, Nikolaos Kehagias, Clivia M. Sotomayor-Torres, Donato Cocina, Renato Mortera, Salvatore Crapanzano, Carlos Javier Pelegrín, María Carmen Garrigos, Alfonso Jiménez, Begoña Galindo, Mari Carmen Araque, Donna Dykeman, Nuno M. Neves, Jose Maria Marimón
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/9b49e2ef7e5f4f3898b48d782921b5b2
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Sumario:Abstract One strategy to decrease the incidence of hospital-acquired infections is to avoid the survival of pathogens in the environment by the development of surfaces with antimicrobial activity. To study the antibacterial behaviour of active surfaces, different approaches have been developed of which ISO 22916 is the standard. To assess the performance of different testing methodologies to analyse the antibacterial activity of hydrophobic surface patterned plastics as part of a Horizon 2020 European research project. Four different testing methods were used to study the antibacterial activity of a patterned film, including the ISO 22916 standard, the immersion method, the touch-transfer inoculation method, and the swab inoculation method, this latter developed specifically for this project. The non-realistic test conditions of the ISO 22916 standard showed this method to be non-appropriate in the study of hydrophobic patterned surfaces. The immersion method also showed no differences between patterned films and smooth controls due to the lack of attachment of testing bacteria on both surfaces. The antibacterial activity of films could be demonstrated by the touch-transfer and the swab inoculation methods, that more precisely mimicked the way of high-touch surfaces contamination, and showed to be the best methodologies to test the antibacterial activity of patterned hydrophobic surfaces. A new ISO standard would be desirable as the reference method to study the antibacterial behaviour of patterned surfaces.