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    Untreated polymer surface with large bacterial colony (left) and in comparison, very sparsely populated bacterial colony on ANAB treated surface (right), demonstrating bacterial inhibition by ANAB. Image courtesy of Exogenesis Corp.
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    Modification to the surface of medical devices by using nanoscale beam technology could reduce bacterial attachment to those devices, which could then be implanted inside a patient.
     
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    “We’ve tested a range of polymer materials with regard to bacterial attachment using Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa,” he said. “These are two of the most common pathogens that are linked to hospital-acquired infections and device-associated infections. They represent two fundamentally different types of pathogens, gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.”
     
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