Prevention of bacterial colonization on non-thermal atmospheric plasma treated surgical sutures for control and prevention of surgical site infections
Fig 2
Antimicrobial effect of NTAP treatment on contaminated sutures.
(A) Growth of E. coli and S. aureus around untreated suture samples was clearly visible on TSA plates while no bacterial growth was observed around 3-minute NTAP treated sutures. Sutures on the left sides of petri dishes are untreated (control suture) and sutures on the right sides of petri dishes are NTAP treated samples. (B) Logarithmic growth of S. aureus per cm suture fragment of control and 3-minute NTAP treated sutures. (C) Logarithmic growth of E. coli per cm suture fragment of control and 3-minute NTAP treated sutures.