Progress in alternative strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance: Focus on antibiotics

J Murugaiyan, PA Kumar, GS Rao, K Iskandar… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance, and, in a broader perspective, antimicrobial resistance (AMR),
continues to evolve and spread beyond all boundaries. As a result, infectious diseases have …

The kINPen—a review on physics and chemistry of the atmospheric pressure plasma jet and its applications

S Reuter, T Von Woedtke… - Journal of Physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The kINPen® plasma jet was developed from laboratory prototype to commercially available
non-equilibrium cold plasma jet for various applications in materials research, surface …

Recent developments in cold plasma decontamination technology in the food industry

R Mandal, A Singh, AP Singh - Trends in food science & technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background The advent of the 21 st century has witnessed a growing demand of safe and
nutritious foods. The food industry is adopting novel non-thermal food processing …

Microbiological interactions with cold plasma

P Bourke, D Ziuzina, L Han, PJ Cullen… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
There is a diverse range of microbiological challenges facing the food, healthcare and
clinical sectors. The increasing and pervasive resistance to broad‐spectrum antibiotics and …

A review on non-thermal atmospheric plasma for food preservation: Mode of action, determinants of effectiveness, and applications

M López, T Calvo, M Prieto, R Múgica-Vidal… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Non-thermal Atmospheric Plasma (NTAP) is a cutting-edge technology which has gained
much attention during the last decade in the food-processing sector as a promising …

Antimicrobial strategies centered around reactive oxygen species–bactericidal antibiotics, photodynamic therapy, and beyond

F Vatansever, WCMA de Melo, P Avci… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can attack a diverse range of targets to exert antimicrobial
activity, which accounts for their versatility in mediating host defense against a broad range …

Onychomycosis in the 21st century: an update on diagnosis, epidemiology, and treatment

AK Gupta, SG Versteeg… - Journal of cutaneous …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Onychomycosis accounts for 50% of all nail disease cases and is commonly caused by
dermatophytes. Diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus, immunosuppression, obesity …

[HTML][HTML] Non-thermal atmospheric-pressure plasma possible application in wound healing

B Haertel, T Von Woedtke, KD Weltmann… - Biomolecules & …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Non-thermal atmospheric-pressure plasma, also named cold plasma, is defined as a partly
ionized gas. Therefore, it cannot be equated with plasma from blood; it is not biological in …

Cold plasmas for biofilm control: opportunities and challenges

BF Gilmore, PB Flynn, S O'Brien, N Hickok… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Bacterial biofilm infections account for a major proportion of chronic and medical device
associated infections in humans, yet our ability to control them is compromised by their …

Long-lived and short-lived reactive species produced by a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet for the inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus …

VSSK Kondeti, CQ Phan, K Wende… - Free Radical Biology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Different chemical pathways leading to the inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and
Staphylococcus aureus by a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) in buffered and …