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Urinary Catheters Coated with a Novel Biofilm Preventative Agent Inhibit Biofilm Development by Diverse Bacterial Uropathogens

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ANTIBIOTICS-BASEL
卷 11, 期 11, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11111514

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antibiofilm agent; biofilm; catheter coating; Escherichia coli; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; silicone catheter; urinary catheter; urinary tract infection; uropathogen

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This study demonstrates the effectiveness of a novel biofilm preventative agent coating in inhibiting biofilm formation by both Gram-negative and Gram-positive uropathogens on urinary catheters.
Despite the implementation of stringent guidelines for the prevention of catheter-associated (CA) urinary tract infection (UTI), CAUTI remains one of the most common health care-related infections. We previously showed that an antimicrobial/antibiofilm agent inhibited biofilm development by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial pathogens isolated from human infections. In this study, we examined the ability of a novel biofilm preventative agent (BPA) coating on silicone urinary catheters to inhibit biofilm formation on the catheters by six different bacterial pathogens isolated from UTIs: three Escherichia coli strains, representative of the most common bacterium isolated from UTI; one Enterobacter cloacae, a multidrug-resistant isolate; one Pseudomonas aeruginosa, common among patients with long-term catheterization; and one isolate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, as both a Gram-positive and a resistant organism. First, we tested the ability of these strains to form biofilms on urinary catheters made of red rubber, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and silicone using the microtiter plate biofilm assay. When grown in artificial urine medium, which closely mimics human urine, all tested isolates formed considerable biofilms on all three catheter materials. As the biofilm biomass formed on silicone catheters was 0.5 to 1.6 logs less than that formed on rubber or PVC, respectively, we then coated the silicone catheters with BPA (benzalkonium chloride, polyacrylic acid, and glutaraldehyde), and tested the ability of the coated catheters to further inhibit biofilm development by these uropathogens. Compared with the uncoated silicone catheters, BPA-coated catheters completely prevented biofilm development by all the uropathogens, except P. aeruginosa, which showed no reduction in biofilm biomass. To explore the reason for P. aeruginosa resistance to the BPA coating, we utilized two specific lipopolysaccharide (LPS) mutants. In contrast to their parent strain, the two mutants failed to form biofilms on the BPA-coated catheters, which suggests that the composition of P. aeruginosa LPS plays a role in the resistance of wild-type P. aeruginosa to the BPA coating. Together, our results suggest that, except for P. aeruginosa, BPA-coated silicone catheters may prevent biofilm formation by both Gram-negative and Gram-positive uropathogens.

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