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Can sharkskin fight hospital infections?

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   August 21, 2008

The year-old Sharklet organization has developed an anti-microbial surface on shark skin that they believe could help prevent hospital-acquired infections. The new surface disrupts microbes' ability to reproduce and form bacterial films, and can prevent bacterial growth for up to 21 days.

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