A new generation of furniture, including antibacterial surfaces, should adjust to the changing needs of an ageing population. Respectively, determination of bacterial adhesion on wooden surfaces, finished with various wood finishes or coating is an important topic. The main aims of our work were of a preliminary character. We wanted to state if the existing methods for testing of bacterial adhesion on different surfaces could be implemented on wooden surfaces coated with some common surface finishes. It was shown that wood coatings and finishes on wood could be tested for adhesion of bacteria, when the established procedures are adapted for wood as a specific substrate material. It seems that Pseudomonas aeruginosa adhesion level was different on selected finishes. Our preliminary results showed that the lowest one was on the hydrophobic and olephobic silane formulation treated laminated beech wood and the highest one on linseed oil. This tentative indication should be confirmed with extensive experiments in future.

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