Journal
DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 1761-1763Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.diamond.2004.03.003
Keywords
nanocrystalline diamond; titanium; medical steel; artificial surface; implant; material engineering; bacterial colonization; fluorescence
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Susceptibility of medical steel, titanium and medical steel coated with nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) to bacterial colonization was investigated. Number of bacteria at the surface was estimated with fluorescence microscopy inspection. It was found that efficiency of bacterial settlement depends on the presence of proteins in the surrounding media and that NCD surface exhibits the highest resistance to this process, significantly higher than that of titanium. The resistance of medical steel is very poor. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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