Bacteria trapping fibrous material
OwnerArie Besemer, Dorine Lisa Van Brussel-Verraest +5inventors
InventorsArie Besemer, Dorine Lisa Van Brussel-Verraest, Anne-Mieke Verwilligen, Gunilla Himmelmann, Kent Malmgren, Bo Andreasson, Carolyn Berland
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Abstract
The invention concerns the use of a fibre modified with functions capable of interacting with microbial cell wall proteins for immobilising micro-organisms in hygiene products. Those functions are particularly capable of interacting with anionic groups and amine groups, and are especially cationic groups and aldehydes, respectively. The fibres may be synthetic or cellulosic. Also hygiene products containing these fibres are described.
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A process of immobilising micro-organisms a hygiene product comprising contacting a medium suspected of containing micro-organisms with a hygiene product containing a fibre modified with functions capable of interacting with microbial cell wall biopolymers.
A layered hygiene product comprising at least one layer containing a fibre modified with cationic and/or aldehyde groups and at least one layer not containing a modified fibre.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.