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General Considerations for Studying Bacterial Adhesion to Biomaterials

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Bacterial adherence to biomaterial and tissue surfaces is an important step in the pathogenesis of prosthetic37,94 and tissue13 infection and the exact mechanism of prosthetic infection remains unclear. Before effective preventive or therapeutic methods can be achieved, the process, characteristics, or the mechanism of bacterial adhesion to biomaterials have to be studied. In this review, the experimental methods for bacterial adhesion to biomaterial surfaces are discussed.

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An, Y.H., Skowronski, P. (2000). General Considerations for Studying Bacterial Adhesion to Biomaterials. In: An, Y.H., Friedman, R.J. (eds) Handbook of Bacterial Adhesion. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-224-1_8

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