Induction heating for eradicating Staphylococcus epidermidis from biofilm

摘要

Induction heating is a noninvasive, nonantibiotic treatment modality that can potentially be used to cause thermal damage to the bacterial biofilm on the metal implant surface. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of induction heating on killing from biofilm and to determine the possible synergistic effect of induction heating and antibiotics.