Anti-bacterial action of multi-component bioactive glass coating for surgical suture

Abstract EN

Surgical sutures are textile biomaterial used for wound closure and ligate blood vessels.

One of disadvantages of this material is establishment of infection at the surgical site.

Coating sutures with bioactive glasses can be used to overcome such side effect.

In this study, multi-component bioactive glass was prepared by melt-derived route and used to coat Mersilk suture by in-house slurry dipping technique.

The antimicrobial action of this coating was investigated in vitro against Staphylococcus aurous, Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus and compared with tertiary-component (45S5) glass.

The results indicated that multi-component bioactive glass coating exerted antibacterial action and this action increased with increasing glass concentration