Effects of gamma irradiation on bacterial microflora associated with human amniotic membrane.

Human amniotic membrane is considered a promising allograft material for the treatment of ocular surface reconstruction, burns, and other skin defects. In order to avoid the transmission of any diseases, grafts should be perfectly sterile. Twenty-five amniotic sacs were collected to determine the mi...

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Published in:BioMed Research International Vol. 2013; pp. 586561 - 586562
Main Authors: Binte Atique, Fahmida, Ahmed, Kazi Tahsin, Asaduzzaman, S M, Hasan, Kazi Nadim
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
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          Binte Atique, Fahmida
          Ahmed, Kazi Tahsin
          Asaduzzaman, S M
          Hasan, Kazi Nadim
        affil: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, North South University, Bangladesh.
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          Amnion Microbiology
          Amnion Radiation Effects
          Bacteria Radiation Effects
          gamma Rays
          Bacteria
          Human
          Microbiologic Phenomena Radiation Effects
          Radiation Dosage
          Sterilization and Disinfection
      ab: Human amniotic membrane is considered a promising allograft material for the treatment of ocular surface reconstruction, burns, and other skin defects. In order to avoid the transmission of any diseases, grafts should be perfectly sterile. Twenty-five amniotic sacs were collected to determine the microbiological quality ofhuman amniotic membrane, to analyze the radiation sensitivity pattern of the microorganism, and to detect the radiation decimal reduction dose (D10) values. All the samples were found to be contaminated, and the bioburden was ranged from 3.4 x 10² to 1.2 x 105cfu/g. Initially, a total fifty bacterial isolates were characterized according to their cultural, morphological, and biochemical characteristics and then tested for the radiation sensitivity in an incremental series of radiation doses from 1 to 10 KGy. The results depict gradual decline in bioburden with incline of radiation doses. Staphylococcus spp. were the most frequently isolated bacterial contaminant in tissue samples (44%). The D10 values of the bacterial isolates were ranged from 0.6 to 1.27 KGy. Streptococcus spp. were found to be the highest radioresistant strain with the radiation sterilization dose (RSD) of 11.4 KGy for a bioburden level of1000. To compare the differences, D10 values were also calculated by graphical evaluations of the data with two of the representative isolates of each bacterial species which showed no significant variations. Findings of this study indicate that lower radiation dose is quite satisfactory for the sterilization of amniotic membrane grafts. Therefore, these findings would be helpful to predict the efficacy of radiation doses for the processing of amniotic membrane for various purposes.
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