1Departments of Dermatology (R.J.M., M.C.M., N.K.A., B.L.P., R.V.O., I.D.B., Y.W., and L.S.M.) and Orthopaedic Surgery (J.M.T., R.S.S., and L.S.M.) and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine (L.S.M.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
2Departments of Biomedical Engineering (J.Z.) and Materials Science and Engineering (X.J., R.A.M., H.-Q.M., and L.S.M.), Translational Tissue Engineering Center (X.J., R.A.M., H.-Q.M., and L.S.M.), Institute for NanoBioTechnology (X.J., R.A.M., and H.-Q.M.), and Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute (H.-Q.M.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
E-mail address for L.S. Miller: [email protected]
Investigation performed at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Disclosure: This work was supported by a Johns Hopkins University-Coulter Translational Partnership Award (R.S.S., H-Q.M., and L.S.M.) and T32 AR07708-01 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (J.M.T.). The coating investigated in this work is included in a pending U.S. patent application serial no. 16/076,606: “Compositions and Methods for Preparation of Composite Polymer Coatings on Medical Implants, and Their Use for Co-delivery of Multiple Antimicrobial Agents” (J.Z., H.-Q.M., and L.S.M.). On the Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest forms, which are provided with the online version of the article, one or more of the authors checked “yes” to indicate that the author had a relevant financial relationship in the biomedical arena outside the submitted work and “yes” to indicate that the author had a patent and/or copyright, planned, pending, or issued, broadly relevant to this work (https://links.lww.com/JBJS/F59).
