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Hydrogen-Peroxide-Generating Electrochemical Scaffold Eradicates Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms.


ABSTRACT: Increasing rates of chronic wound infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a crisis in healthcare settings. Biofilms formed by bacterial communities in these wounds create a complex environment, enabling bacteria to persist, even with antibiotic treatment. Wound infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are major causes of morbidity in clinical practice. There is a need for new therapeutic interventions not based on antibiotics. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a known antibacterial/antibiofilm agent, continuous delivery of which has been challenging. A conductive electrochemical scaffold (e-scaffold) is developed, which is composed of carbon fabric that electrochemically reduces dissolved oxygen into H2O2 when polarized at -0.6 VAg/AgCl, as a novel antibiofilm wound dressing material. In this study, the in vitro antibiofilm activity of the e-scaffold against MRSA is investigated. The developed e-scaffold efficiently eradicates MRSA biofilms, based on bacterial quantitation and ATP measurements. Moreover, imaging hinted at the possibility of cell-membrane damage as a mechanism of action. These results suggest that an H2O2-generating e-scaffold may be a novel platform for eliminating MRSA biofilms without using antibiotics and may be useful to treat chronic MRSA wound infections.

SUBMITTER: Raval YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6551415 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Hydrogen-Peroxide-Generating Electrochemical Scaffold Eradicates Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Biofilms.

Raval Yash S YS   Mohamed Abdelrhman A   Zmuda Hannah M HM   Patel Robin R   Beyenal Haluk H  

Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) 20190306 6


Increasing rates of chronic wound infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a crisis in healthcare settings. Biofilms formed by bacterial communities in these wounds create a complex environment, enabling bacteria to persist, even with antibiotic treatment. Wound infections caused by methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA) are major causes of morbidity in clinical practice. There is a need for new therapeutic interventions not based on antibiotics. Hydrogen peroxid  ...[more]

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