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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Formato: | article |
Idioma: | eng |
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2019
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Texto completo: | https://hdl.handle.net/10216/136303 |
País: | Portugal |
Oai: | oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/136303 |