Abstract:Background: One strategy to decrease the incidence of hospital-acquired infections is to avoid the survival of pathogens in the environment by the development of surfaces with antimicrobial activity. To study the antimicrobial behaviour of active surfaces, different approaches have been developed of which ISO 22916 is the standard. Aim: To assess the performance of different testing methodologies to analyse the antimicrobial activity of hydrophobic surface patterned plastics as part of a Horizon 2020 European … Show more
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