Dual role of iodine, silver, chlorhexidine and octenidine as antimicrobial and antiprotease agents.

OBJECTIVES:The majority of human chronic wounds contain bacterial biofilms, which produce proteases and retard the resolution of inflammation. This in turn leads to elevated patient protease activity. Chronic wounds progressing towards closure show a reduction in proteolytic degradation. Therefore,...

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Main Authors: Vojtěch Pavlík, Martin Sojka, Mária Mazúrová, Vladimír Velebný
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211055