Interdisciplinary‐inspired smart antibacterial materials and their biomedical applications

Y Wu, P Liu, B Mehrjou, PK Chu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of antibiotics has saved millions of lives, but the emergence of antibiotic‐
resistant bacteria has become another problem in modern medicine. To avoid or reduce the …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infectious biofilms: Challenges and strategies

R Yin, J Cheng, J Wang, P Li, J Lin - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a Gram-negative bacterium, is one of the major pathogens
implicated in human opportunistic infection and a common cause of clinically persistent …

Aggregation-induced emission nanoparticles for single near-infrared light-triggered photodynamic and photothermal antibacterial therapy

W Wang, F Wu, Q Zhang, N Zhou, M Zhang, T Zheng… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phototheranostics is a potential area for precision medicine, which has received increasing
attention for antibacterial applications. Integrating all phototheranostic modalities in a single …

[HTML][HTML] The current status of photodynamic therapy in cancer treatment

W Jiang, M Liang, Q Lei, G Li, S Wu - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Photodynamic therapy (PDT), a non-invasive cancer treatment strategy,
has presented a broad scope in future clinical applications. This review mainly summarizes …

Targeting and arginine-driven synergizing photodynamic therapy with nutritional immunotherapy nanosystems for combating MRSA biofilms

A Zhang, H Wu, X Chen, Z Chen, Y Pan, W Qu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The resistance and immune escape of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
biofilms cause recalcitrant infections. Here, we design a targeting and synergizing cascade …

Recovering the susceptibility of antibiotic-resistant bacteria using photooxidative damage

JM Soares, VV Yakovlev, KC Blanco… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Multidrug-resistant bacteria are one of the most serious threats to infection control. Few new
antibiotics have been developed; however, the lack of an effective new mechanism of their …

[HTML][HTML] Biofilms in surgical site infections: recent advances and novel prevention and eradication strategies

A Hrynyshyn, M Simões, A Borges - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are common postoperative occurrences due to contamination
of the surgical wound or implanted medical devices with community or hospital-acquired …

Self‐assembled corrole/chitosan photothermal nanoparticles for accelerating infected diabetic wound healing

Y Yu, R Tian, Y Zhao, X Qin, L Hu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microvascular dysfunction caused by hyperglycemia leads to slow healing of diabetic
wounds and significantly increases the risk of bacterial infection. The misuse of antibiotics …

Nanomaterials enabling clinical translation of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

M Awad, N Thomas, TJ Barnes, CA Prestidge - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has emerged as a promising approach to aid
the fight against looming antibiotic resistance. aPDT harnesses the energy of light through …

Surface chemistry of gold nanoparticles for bacterial detection and antimicrobial applications

P Ge, J Zhang, T Ding, Y Xianyu - ACS Materials Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bacteria can infect the human body and cause disease, which endangers public safety. The
emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria poses a great challenge on the treatment of …