期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOMEDICINE
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 731-736出版社
DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.2147/IJN.S38256
关键词
antibacterial; medical device infection; nanoparticle; iron oxide; biofilm; S. aureus
资金
- Karen T Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award at Brown University
Biofilms formed by antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) continue to be a problem for medical devices. Antibiotic resistant bacteria (such as S. aureus) often complicate the treatment and healing of the patient, yet, medical devices are needed to heal such patients. Therefore, methods to treat these biofilms once formed on medical devices are badly needed. Due to their small size and magnetic properties, superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) may be one possible material to penetrate biofilms and kill or slow the growth of bacteria. In this study, SPION were functionalized with amine, carboxylate, and isocyanate functional groups to further improve their efficacy to disrupt the growth of S. aureus biofilms. Without the use of antibiotics, results showed that SPION functionalized with carboxylate groups (followed by isocyanate then amine functional groups then unfunctionalized SPION) significantly disrupted biofilms and retarded the growth of S. aureus compared to untreated biofilms (by over 35% after 24 hours).
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