Innovative Approaches to Understand, Prevent and Eradicate Biofilms and Related Infections—a New Look from Natural Compounds to Nanotechnology
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2024) | Viewed by 4189
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Interests: quorum quenching; quorum sensing; molecular mechanism of action; Candida; CLSM; surfactants
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Dear Colleagues,
Biofilm has remained a major challenge for medicine for many years. Increasingly, multi-drug resistant strains are being reported for which antibiotics no longer work, indicating a clear evolution of microbes. Therefore, it is crucial to develop innovative approaches to understand, prevent, and eradicate biofilms and their associated infections, as they represent a significant public health challenge. Natural compounds and nanotechnology have the potential to successfully overcome the limitations of conventional antimicrobials and offer effective treatments for microbial infections. Perhaps a broad look at the current problems will reveal the potential of natural compounds to potentate the activity of conventional antibiotics, achieve adhesion inhibition, disrupt mature biofilms and ensure their eradication, and equip us with a solution. Likewise, nanotechnology provides novel opportunities to combat biofilm-related infections.
The Special Issue will focus on innovative approaches to understand, prevent, and eliminate biofilms using natural compounds and nanotechnology. We invite you to participate in this issue with novel contributions, as it is a great opportunity to aid in the fight against biofilm.
Dr. Emil Paluch
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biofilm
- natural compounds
- nanotechnology
- antibiotic resistance
- mechanism of compound
- bacteria
- fungi
- public health
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