Figure 5
From: An ex vivo model of medical device-mediated bacterial skin translocation
Fluorescence confocal laser scanning microscopy images of porcine skin’s distal and proximal surfaces that had been in contact with different catheters. Skin surface autofluorescence is green, RP437/pRSH103 E. coli is red, and the black region is insertion site of catheter. Images for each timepoint were taken of sections around the catheter, as seen by the curvature where the biopsy punch was made. Distal side is the epidermis and proximal side is mostly hypodermis and associated fat cells. (A) Skin around unmodified catheter, (B) Skin from antibiotic control, (C) Skin around non-eluting catheter, (D) Skin around eluting catheter. Scale bar = 50 µm.
