Antibacterial Peptide-Based Gel for Prevention of Medical Implanted-Device Infection.

Implanted medical devices are prone to infection. Designing new strategies to reduce infection and implant rejection are an important challenge for modern medicine. To this end, in the last few years many hydrogels have been designed as matrices for antimicrobial molecules destined to fight frequent...

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Main Authors: Mihaela Mateescu, Sébastien Baixe, Tony Garnier, Loic Jierry, Vincent Ball, Youssef Haikel, Marie Hélène Metz-Boutigue, Michel Nardin, Pierre Schaaf, Olivier Etienne, Philippe Lavalle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4682826?pdf=render