Increased Release Time of Antibiotics from Bone Allografts through a Novel Biodegradable Coating
Figure 3
Release profile of amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, or vancomycin with sustained release Ca-Alg film coating (). Although the coating method was the same in each case, the effective release term was different among the three drugs with amoxicillin lasting up to 8 days and ciprofloxacin up to 28 days while vancomycin reached 50 days.
