The Mechanisms and the Applications of Antibacterial Polymers in Surface Modification on Medical Devices

Medical device contamination caused by microbial pathogens such as bacteria and fungi has posed a severe threat to the patients’ health in hospitals. Due to the increasing resistance of pathogens to antibiotics, the efficacy of traditional antibiotics treatment is gradually decreasing for the infect...

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Main Authors: Haofeng Qiu, Zhangyong Si, Yang Luo, Peipei Feng, Xujin Wu, Wenjia Hou, Yabin Zhu, Mary B. Chan-Park, Long Xu, Dongmei Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00910/full