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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 1998, p. 2440-2442, Vol. 42, No. 9
0066-4804/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Microbicidal Activity of a New Silver-Containing Polymer, SPI-ARGENT II

Günter Kampf,1,* Beate Dietze,1 Christian Große-Siestrup,2 Constanze Wendt,1 and Heike Martiny1

Institut für Hygiene, Umweltmedizin und Arbeitsmedizin, Freie Universität Berlin, 12203 Berlin,1 and Tierexperimentelle Einrichtung, Humboldt Universität, Virchow-Klinikum, 13353 Berlin,2 Germany

Received 31 December 1997/Returned for modification 31 March 1998/Accepted 16 June 1998

The survival of three bacterial species and Candida albicans was studied on SPI-ARGENT II. The immediate recovery from silver-impregnated polymer and control polymer (1 cm2) was ~106 to 107 microorganisms. After incubation (37°C) and neutralization of silver with horse serum (5%), surviving organisms were recovered. The survival of the microorganisms on the polymer was not found to be influenced by the silver implantation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institut für Hygiene, Umweltmedizin und Arbeitsmedezin, Freie Universität Berlin, 12203 Berlin, Germany. Phone: 49 30 8445 3680. Fax: 49 30 8445 3682. 

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 1998, p. 2440-2442, Vol. 42, No. 9
0066-4804/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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