Copper-Silver alloy coated door handles as a potential antibacterial strategy in clinical settings

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Copper-Silver alloy coated door handles as a potential antibacterial strategy in clinical settings. / Ciacotich, Nicole; Kvich, Lasse; Sanford, Nicholas; Wolcott, Joseph; Bjarnsholt, Thomas; Gram, Lone.

In: Coatings, Vol. 10, No. 8, 790, 2020.

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Harvard

Ciacotich, N, Kvich, L, Sanford, N, Wolcott, J, Bjarnsholt, T & Gram, L 2020, 'Copper-Silver alloy coated door handles as a potential antibacterial strategy in clinical settings', Coatings, vol. 10, no. 8, 790. https://doi.org/10.3390/COATINGS10080790

APA

Ciacotich, N., Kvich, L., Sanford, N., Wolcott, J., Bjarnsholt, T., & Gram, L. (2020). Copper-Silver alloy coated door handles as a potential antibacterial strategy in clinical settings. Coatings, 10(8), [790]. https://doi.org/10.3390/COATINGS10080790

Vancouver

Ciacotich N, Kvich L, Sanford N, Wolcott J, Bjarnsholt T, Gram L. Copper-Silver alloy coated door handles as a potential antibacterial strategy in clinical settings. Coatings. 2020;10(8). 790. https://doi.org/10.3390/COATINGS10080790

Author

Ciacotich, Nicole ; Kvich, Lasse ; Sanford, Nicholas ; Wolcott, Joseph ; Bjarnsholt, Thomas ; Gram, Lone. / Copper-Silver alloy coated door handles as a potential antibacterial strategy in clinical settings. In: Coatings. 2020 ; Vol. 10, No. 8.

Bibtex

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title = "Copper-Silver alloy coated door handles as a potential antibacterial strategy in clinical settings",
abstract = "Coating surfaces with a copper-silver alloy in clinical settings can be an alternative or complementary antibacterial strategy to other existing technologies and disinfection interventions. A newly developed copper-silver alloy coating has a high antibacterial efficacy against common pathogenic bacteria in laboratory setups, and the purpose of this study is to determine the antibacterial efficacy of this copper-silvery alloy in real-world clinical settings. Two field trials were carried out at a private clinic and a wound care center. Door handles coated with the copper-silver alloy had a lower total aerobic plate count (1.3 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 and 0.8 ± 0.3 Log CFU/cm2, CFU stands for Colony Forming Units) than the reference uncoated material on-site (2.4 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 for the stainless steel and 1.7 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 for the satin brass). The copper-silver alloy did not selectively reduce specific bacterial species. This study points to the possibility of a successful long-term implementation of the copper-silver alloy coating as an antibacterial strategy.",
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RIS

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AU - Gram, Lone

PY - 2020

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N2 - Coating surfaces with a copper-silver alloy in clinical settings can be an alternative or complementary antibacterial strategy to other existing technologies and disinfection interventions. A newly developed copper-silver alloy coating has a high antibacterial efficacy against common pathogenic bacteria in laboratory setups, and the purpose of this study is to determine the antibacterial efficacy of this copper-silvery alloy in real-world clinical settings. Two field trials were carried out at a private clinic and a wound care center. Door handles coated with the copper-silver alloy had a lower total aerobic plate count (1.3 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 and 0.8 ± 0.3 Log CFU/cm2, CFU stands for Colony Forming Units) than the reference uncoated material on-site (2.4 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 for the stainless steel and 1.7 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 for the satin brass). The copper-silver alloy did not selectively reduce specific bacterial species. This study points to the possibility of a successful long-term implementation of the copper-silver alloy coating as an antibacterial strategy.

AB - Coating surfaces with a copper-silver alloy in clinical settings can be an alternative or complementary antibacterial strategy to other existing technologies and disinfection interventions. A newly developed copper-silver alloy coating has a high antibacterial efficacy against common pathogenic bacteria in laboratory setups, and the purpose of this study is to determine the antibacterial efficacy of this copper-silvery alloy in real-world clinical settings. Two field trials were carried out at a private clinic and a wound care center. Door handles coated with the copper-silver alloy had a lower total aerobic plate count (1.3 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 and 0.8 ± 0.3 Log CFU/cm2, CFU stands for Colony Forming Units) than the reference uncoated material on-site (2.4 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 for the stainless steel and 1.7 ± 0.4 Log CFU/cm2 for the satin brass). The copper-silver alloy did not selectively reduce specific bacterial species. This study points to the possibility of a successful long-term implementation of the copper-silver alloy coating as an antibacterial strategy.

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KW - Healthcare-associated infections

KW - Touch-surfaces

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