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Vitamin C is an effective biofilm prevention agent against uropathogenic Escherichia coli on urinary catheter tubes
2024-07-01
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Objective Uropathogenic <italic>Escherichia coli</italic> (UPEC) is the major cause of catheter associated urinary tract infections (UTI). As the production of biofilm is usually associated with enhanced antibiotic resistance, formation of biofilm by UPEC poses a challenge against its eradication. Vitamin C is showing great promise as an antimicrobial agent in recent studies. In this s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6b8823fb-e980-5308-a9f5-99118210752c
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4532112/v1
