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