Adhesion force of staphylococcus aureus on various biomaterial surfaces

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• 作者：Fahad Alam ; Kantesh Balani ; ^{kbalani@iitk.ac.in}
• 关键词：Bacterial adhesion ; Stainless steel ; Polymer ; Ceramic ; Atomic force microscope
• 刊名：Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：65
• 期：Complete
• 页码：872-880
• 全文大小：1281 K
• 卷排序：65

文摘

Staphylococcus comprises of more than half of all pathogens in orthopedic implant infections and they can cause major bone infection which can result in destruction of joint and bone. In the current study, adhesion force of bacteria on the surface of various biomaterial surfaces is measured using atomic force microscope (AFM). Staphylococcus aureus was immobilized on an AFM tipless cantilever as a force probe to measure the adhesion force between bacteria and biomaterials (viz. ultra-high molecular weight poly ethylene (UHMWPE), stainless steel (SS), Ti–6Al–4V alloy, hydroxyapatite (HA)). At the contact time of 10 s, UHMWPE shows weak adhesion force (~4 nN) whereas SS showed strong adhesion force (~15 nN) due to their surface energy and surface roughness. Bacterial retention and viability experiment (3M™ petrifilm test, agar plate) dictates that hydroxyapatite shows the lowest vaibility of bacteria, whereas lowest bacterial retention is observed on UHMWPE surface. Similar results were obtained from live/dead staining test, where HA shows 65% viability, whereas on UHMWPE, SS and Ti–6Al–4V, the bacterial viability is 78%, 94% and 97%, respectively. Lower adhesion forces, constrained pull-off distance (of bacterial) and high antibacterial resistance of bioactive-HA makes it a potential biomaterial for bone-replacement arthroplasty.