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Abstract Title:

Vitamin C Pretreatment Enhances the Antibacterial Effect of Cold Atmospheric Plasma.

Abstract Source:

Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2017 ;7:43. Epub 2017 Feb 22. PMID: 28275584

Abstract Author(s):

Saga Helgadóttir, Santosh Pandit, Venkata R S S Mokkapati, Fredrik Westerlund, Peter Apell, Ivan Mijakovic

Article Affiliation:

Saga Helgadóttir

Abstract:

Bacterial biofilms are three-dimensional structures containing bacterial cells enveloped in a protective polymeric matrix, which renders them highly resistant to antibiotics and the human immune system. Therefore, the capacity to make biofilms is considered as a major virulence factor for pathogenic bacteria. Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) is known to be quite efficient in eradicating planktonic bacteria, but its effectiveness against biofilms has not been thoroughly investigated. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of exposure of CAP against mature biofilm for different time intervals and to evaluate the effect of combined treatment with vitamin C. We demonstrate that CAP is not very effective against 48 h mature bacterial biofilms of several common opportunistic pathogens:, and. However, if bacterial biofilms are pre-treated with vitamin C for 15 min before exposure to CAP, a significantly stronger bactericidal effect can be obtained. Vitamin C pretreatment enhances the bactericidal effect of cold plasma by reducing the viability from 10 to 2% inbiofilm, 50 to 11% in, and 61 to 18% inbiofilm. Since it is not feasible to use extended CAP treatments in medical practice, we argue that the pre-treatment of infectious lesions with vitamin C prior to CAP exposure can be a viable route for efficient eradication of bacterial biofilms in many different applications.

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