Multiple drug-resistant bacteria are a severe and growing public health concern. Because relatively few antibiotics have been approved over recent years and because of the inability …
A Khezerlou, M Alizadeh-Sani, M Azizi-Lalabadi… - Microbial …, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent year, propagation and resistance of pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and virals) to common antimicrobial agents has led to serious health and food problems …
Antimicrobial substances may be synthetic, semisynthetic, or of natural origin (ie, from plants and animals). Antimicrobials are considered “miracle drugs” and can determine if an …
R Pachaiappan, S Rajendran, PL Show, K Manavalan… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Many microbial species causing infectious disease all over the world became a social burden and creating threat among community. These microbes possess long lifetime …
R Goyal, LK Macri, HM Kaplan, J Kohn - Journal of Controlled Release, 2016 - Elsevier
This review provides the first comprehensive overview of the use of both nanoparticles and nanofibers for topical drug delivery. Researchers have explored the use of nanotechnology …
Nanoparticles and nanocomposites are used in a wide range of applications in various fields, such as medicine, textiles, cosmetics, agriculture, optics, food packaging …
Anti-infective biomaterials need to be tailored according to the specific clinical application. All their properties have to be tuned to achieve the best anti-infective performance together …
The major strategies for designing surfaces that prevent fouling due to proteins, bacteria, and marine organisms are reviewed. Biofouling is of great concern in numerous applications …
This article describes the state of the art in the field of antimicrobial polymeric systems during the last decade. Keeping in mind the multitude of existing systems, a classification of the …