Figure 7.

Coating of the vascular stent with Agelaia-MPI plus PEG prevented the adherence of A. baumannii. The vascular stent was left for 3 h in a PEG 400 solution containing 25 µM of Agelaia-MPI (stent + PEG + Agelaia−MPI) or not (stent + PEG). Coated stents were transferred to a new well containing fresh medium and then A. baummanii was added and incubated for 24 h. Uncoated stent was used as a control. At the end of incubation, wells were rinsed with fresh media and the stents were sonicated and the bacterial load adhered in each situation was determined. Results are reported as means and standard deviations of triplicates from one of three independent experiments. These results in all three independent experiments were similar, * p < 0.05 and ** p < 0.0001.