Wound Dressing Attracts Bacteria

Sep-10-15 A new dressing for chronic wounds helps speed healing by attracting and drawing bacteria out of the wound and trapping it in the material for disposal.

Developed by a team from the Swinburne University of Technology, the dressing is made up of electrospun polystyrene fibers made into a mesh. When this mesh was tested by being placed over films of common bacteria, the bacteria chose to move out of the living tissue and into the mesh. This movement was optimized when the sizes of the mesh fibers were about the same size as the bacteria.

If the technology is perfected, the team envisions a wound dressing that could be placed over the wound to draw out bacteria, and then be discarded.

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[ACS.ORG]
[SWINBURNE.EDU.AU]

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