Antimicrobial Activity of Medical Materials
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Materials and Surfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2022) | Viewed by 31252
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hygiene; hospital associated infections; antimicrobial surfaces; copper alloys; multidrug resistant bacteria; efflux pumps; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Acinetobacter baumannii
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Infectious diseases can be transmitted either directly from person to person or indirectly via surfaces on which bacteria can survive and sometimes thrive as biofilms. On medical devices, formation of biofilms is an additional cause of chronic infections, sometimes leading to implant failure or patient death. Moreover, in hospital settings, both environmental- and medical device-mediated hospital associated infections (HAIs) are of great concern because they most of the time involve multi-drug resistant strains.
Therefore, to try and reduce medical device- and surface-associated infections, many alternatives have been proposed over the years, including the development of “self-sanitizing” surfaces or biomaterials. Such surfaces/biomaterials would indeed be a great help in trying to reduce HAIs, whether arising from medical devices or environmental contamination. Depending on the final purpose of the biomaterial, investigated alternatives include copper alloys, silver nanoparticles, specialized or functionalized polymers with either antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides or essential oils, etc.
The need for such materials and surfaces is obvious and the possibilities are numerous. This Special Issue of Antibiotics therefore welcomes review and research papers touching on any of these antimicrobial medical devices/surfaces as well as on the various methods and preclinical and clinical trials developed to assess their efficiency.
Dr. Catherine Mullié
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial surfaces
- copper
- silver
- surface functionalization/modifications
- biofilm prevention
- medical textiles
- efficiency
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