A coating of nanoscale zinc oxide pyramids on medical implants and devices prevents the growth of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria commonly causing nosocomial infection. About a million implanted medical devices are infected each year with MRSA and other bacterial species. Clinical management of this kind of infection is extremely difficult and time-consuming. Either it needs treating with antibiotic for very long term yielding drug resistant infection or getting worse of the side effects.
If everything fails, there is no other option than to remove the transplant which in turn increases the cost of the treatment. University of Michigan researchers found that a coating of zinc oxide nanopyramids can disrupt the growth of MRSA biofilm on coated surfaces by over 95 percent. The Nanoparticle of zinc oxide, a common ingredient…
