Broad-spectrum anti-adhesive coating based on an extracellular polymer from a marine cyanobacterium

Medical device-associated infections are a major health threat, representing about half of all hospital-acquired infections. Current strategies to prevent this problem based on device coatings with antimicrobial compounds (antibiotics or antiseptics) have proven to be insufficient, often toxic, and...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Costa, B (author)
Outros Autores: Mota, R (author), Parreira, P (author), Tamagnini, P (author), Martins, MCL (author), Costa, F (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2019
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Texto completo:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/136303
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/136303