Author:
Perez-Gavilan Ana,de Castro Joana Vieira,Arana Ainara,Merino Santos,Retolaza Aritz,Alves Sofia A.,Francone Achille,Kehagias Nikolaos,Sotomayor-Torres Clivia M.,Cocina Donato,Mortera Renato,Crapanzano Salvatore,Pelegrín Carlos Javier,Garrigos María Carmen,Jiménez Alfonso,Galindo Begoña,Araque Mari Carmen,Dykeman Donna,Neves Nuno M.,Marimón Jose Maria
Abstract
AbstractOne strategy to decrease the incidence of hospital-acquired infections is to avoid the survival of pathogens in the environment by the development of surfaces with antimicrobial activity. To study the antibacterial behaviour of active surfaces, different approaches have been developed of which ISO 22916 is the standard. To assess the performance of different testing methodologies to analyse the antibacterial activity of hydrophobic surface patterned plastics as part of a Horizon 2020 European research project. Four different testing methods were used to study the antibacterial activity of a patterned film, including the ISO 22916 standard, the immersion method, the touch-transfer inoculation method, and the swab inoculation method, this latter developed specifically for this project. The non-realistic test conditions of the ISO 22916 standard showed this method to be non-appropriate in the study of hydrophobic patterned surfaces. The immersion method also showed no differences between patterned films and smooth controls due to the lack of attachment of testing bacteria on both surfaces. The antibacterial activity of films could be demonstrated by the touch-transfer and the swab inoculation methods, that more precisely mimicked the way of high-touch surfaces contamination, and showed to be the best methodologies to test the antibacterial activity of patterned hydrophobic surfaces. A new ISO standard would be desirable as the reference method to study the antibacterial behaviour of patterned surfaces.
Funder
This work was in part financed by the European Union Horizon 2020 program grant agreement FLEXPOL
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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