Testing Anti-Biofilm Polymeric Surfaces: Where to Start?

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Cristina Cattò, Francesca Cappitelli

Abstract

Present day awareness of biofilm colonization on polymeric surfaces has prompted the scientific community to develop an ever-increasing number of new materials with anti-biofilm features. However, compared to the large amount of work put into discovering potent biofilm inhibitors, only a small number of papers deal with their validation, a critical step in the translation of research into practical applications. This is due to the lack of standardized testing methods and/or of well-controlled in vivo studies that show biofilm prevention on polymeric surfaces; furthermore, there has been little correlation with the reduced incidence of material deterioration. Here an overview of the most common methods for studying biofilms and for testing the anti-biofilm properties of new surfaces is provided.

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
biosensor
PCR
surface-enhanced Raman scattering
X-ray
Fluorescence microscopy
chip
flow cytometry
Scanning Microscopy
imaging technique
fluorescence

Software Mentioned

BiofOmics
xCelligence
CLSM
STXM
ImageJ
NanoOrange
Imaris
Phlip
MIABiE
Comstat

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