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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2007
Weston F. Harding, Lehi, UT (US);
Austin Jason Mckinnon, Herriman, UT (US);
Mark A. Crawford, Sandy, UT (US);
Lantao Guo, Draper, UT (US);
Glade H. Howell, Sandy, UT (US);
David Ou-yang, Woodbury, UT (US);
Weston F. Harding, Lehi, UT (US);
Austin Jason McKinnon, Herriman, UT (US);
Mark A. Crawford, Sandy, UT (US);
Lantao Guo, Draper, UT (US);
Glade H. Howell, Sandy, UT (US);
David Ou-Yang, Woodbury, UT (US);
Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Abstract
A vascular access device may include a body and a layer of the body that communicates with a pathogenic environment to discourage adhesion of a pathogen to the layer and thus repress pathogenic activity. A method of repressing pathogenic activity in a vascular access device includes providing the device with a body, and coating the body with a layer that discourages adhesion of a pathogen to the layer.