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Adhesion and Colonisation of Microorganisms on Porous TiO2 and TiO2-Silver Biomaterials Cover

Adhesion and Colonisation of Microorganisms on Porous TiO2 and TiO2-Silver Biomaterials

Open Access
|Jul 2019

Abstract

Bone graft transplantation is one of the most common transplants in the world and there has been a significant increase in the use of biomaterials in this sector. Bone substitutes are widely used in traumatology, orthopaedics, maxillofacial surgery and dentistry. The culturing method was used to determine microorganism ability to attach and form biofilms on originally synthesised porous TiO2 and TiO2Ag ceramics. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the intensity of adhesion and colonisation of Staphylococcus epidermidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans on TiO2 and TiO2Ag ceramics. The lowest adhesion and colonisation were on TiO2Ag samples for S. epidermidis and P. aeruginosa.No C. albicans adhesion and colonisation differences were found on TiO2 and TiO2Ag ceramic samples.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2019-0051 | Journal eISSN: 2255-890X | Journal ISSN: 1407-009X
Language: English
Page range: 325 - 331
Submitted on: Jan 3, 2019
Accepted on: Apr 23, 2019
Published on: Jul 12, 2019
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year

© 2019 Ingus Skadiņš, Lana Micko, Liene Zvaigzne, Inga Narkevica, Juta Kroiča, published by Latvian Academy of Sciences
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