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Staphylococcus aureus  is a common cause of catheter-related blood stream infections (CRBSI). The bacterium has the ability to form multilayered biofilms on implanted material, which usually requires the removal of the implanted medical device. A first major step of this biofilm formation is the initial adhesion of the bacterium to the artificial surface. Here, we used single-cell force spectroscopy (SCFS) to study the initial adhesion of  S. aureus  to central venous catheters (CVCs). SCFS performed with  S. aureus  on the surfaces of naïve CVCs produced comparable maximum adhesion forces on three types of CVCs in the low nN range (~ 2–7 nN). These values were drastically reduced, when CVC surfaces were preincubated with human blood plasma or human serum albumin, and similar reductions were observed when  S. aureus  cells were probed with freshly explanted CVCs withdrawn from patients without CRBSI. These findings indicate that the initial adhesion capacity of  S. aureus  to CVC tubing is markedly reduced, once the CVC is inserted into the vein, and that the risk of contamination of the CVC tubing by  S. aureus  during the insertion process might be reduced by a preconditioning of the CVC surface with blood plasma or serum albumin.

Human blood plasma factors affect the adhesion kinetics of Staphylococcus aureus to central venous catheters