Successful surgeries involving orthopedic implants depend on the avoidance of biofilm development on the implant surface during the early postoperative period. Here, we investigate the potential of novel antibacterial compounds - second-generation lipophosphonoxins (LPPOs II) - as additives to surgical bone cements. We demonstrate (i) excellent thermostability of LPPOs II, which is essential to withstand elevated temperatures during exothermic cement polymerization; (ii) unchanged tensile strength and elongation at the break properties of the composite cements containing LPPOs II compared to cements without additives; (iii) convenient elution kinetics on the order of days; and (iv) the strong antibiofilm activity of the LPPO II-loaded cements even against bacteria resistant to the medicinally utilized antibiotic, gentamicin. Thus, LPPOs II display promising potential as antimicrobial additives to surgical bone cements.
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Zborníková, E., Gallo, J., Večeřová, R., Bogdanová, K., Kolář, M., Vítovská, D., … Rejman, D. (2020). Evaluation of Second-Generation Lipophosphonoxins as Antimicrobial Additives in Bone Cement. ACS Omega, 5(7), 3165–3171. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b03072
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