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Potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports

This review was initiated by the COST action CA15114 AMICI “Anti-Microbial Coating Innovations to prevent infectious diseases,” where one important aspect is to analyze ecotoxicological impacts of antimicrobial coatings (AMCs) to ensure their sustainable use. Scopus database was used to collect scie...

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Autores principales: Rosenberg, Merilin, Ilić, Krunoslav, Juganson, Katre, Ivask, Angela, Ahonen, Merja, Vinković Vrček, Ivana, Kahru, Anne
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30775167
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6315
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author Rosenberg, Merilin
Ilić, Krunoslav
Juganson, Katre
Ivask, Angela
Ahonen, Merja
Vinković Vrček, Ivana
Kahru, Anne
author_facet Rosenberg, Merilin
Ilić, Krunoslav
Juganson, Katre
Ivask, Angela
Ahonen, Merja
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Kahru, Anne
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description This review was initiated by the COST action CA15114 AMICI “Anti-Microbial Coating Innovations to prevent infectious diseases,” where one important aspect is to analyze ecotoxicological impacts of antimicrobial coatings (AMCs) to ensure their sustainable use. Scopus database was used to collect scientific literature on the types and uses of AMCs, while market reports were used to collect data on production volumes. Special attention was paid on data obtained for the release of the most prevalent ingredients of AMCs into the aqueous phase that was used as the proxy for their possible ecotoxicological effects. Based on the critical analysis of 2,720 papers, it can be concluded that silver-based AMCs are by far the most studied and used coatings followed by those based on titanium, copper, zinc, chitosan and quaternary ammonium compounds. The literature analysis pointed to biomedicine, followed by marine industry, construction industry (paints), food industry and textiles as the main fields of application of AMCs. The published data on ecotoxicological effects of AMCs was scarce, and also only a small number of the papers provided information on release of antimicrobial ingredients from AMCs. The available release data allowed to conclude that silver, copper and zinc are often released in substantial amounts (up to 100%) from the coatings to the aqueous environment. Chitosan and titanium were mostly not used as active released ingredients in AMCs, but rather as carriers for other release-based antimicrobial ingredients (e.g., conventional antibiotics). While minimizing the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections appeared to be the most prosperous field of AMCs application, the release of environmentally hazardous ingredients of AMCs into hospital wastewaters and thus, also the environmental risks associated with AMCs, comprise currently only a fraction of the release and risks of traditional disinfectants. However, being proactive, while the use of antimicrobial/antifouling coatings could currently pose ecotoxicological effects mainly in marine applications, the broad use of AMCs in other applications like medicine, food packaging and textiles should be postponed until reaching evidences on the (i) profound efficiency of these materials in controlling the spread of pathogenic microbes and (ii) safety of AMCs for the human and ecosystems.
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spelling pubmed-63752562019-02-15 Potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports Rosenberg, Merilin Ilić, Krunoslav Juganson, Katre Ivask, Angela Ahonen, Merja Vinković Vrček, Ivana Kahru, Anne PeerJ Microbiology This review was initiated by the COST action CA15114 AMICI “Anti-Microbial Coating Innovations to prevent infectious diseases,” where one important aspect is to analyze ecotoxicological impacts of antimicrobial coatings (AMCs) to ensure their sustainable use. Scopus database was used to collect scientific literature on the types and uses of AMCs, while market reports were used to collect data on production volumes. Special attention was paid on data obtained for the release of the most prevalent ingredients of AMCs into the aqueous phase that was used as the proxy for their possible ecotoxicological effects. Based on the critical analysis of 2,720 papers, it can be concluded that silver-based AMCs are by far the most studied and used coatings followed by those based on titanium, copper, zinc, chitosan and quaternary ammonium compounds. The literature analysis pointed to biomedicine, followed by marine industry, construction industry (paints), food industry and textiles as the main fields of application of AMCs. The published data on ecotoxicological effects of AMCs was scarce, and also only a small number of the papers provided information on release of antimicrobial ingredients from AMCs. The available release data allowed to conclude that silver, copper and zinc are often released in substantial amounts (up to 100%) from the coatings to the aqueous environment. Chitosan and titanium were mostly not used as active released ingredients in AMCs, but rather as carriers for other release-based antimicrobial ingredients (e.g., conventional antibiotics). While minimizing the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections appeared to be the most prosperous field of AMCs application, the release of environmentally hazardous ingredients of AMCs into hospital wastewaters and thus, also the environmental risks associated with AMCs, comprise currently only a fraction of the release and risks of traditional disinfectants. However, being proactive, while the use of antimicrobial/antifouling coatings could currently pose ecotoxicological effects mainly in marine applications, the broad use of AMCs in other applications like medicine, food packaging and textiles should be postponed until reaching evidences on the (i) profound efficiency of these materials in controlling the spread of pathogenic microbes and (ii) safety of AMCs for the human and ecosystems. PeerJ Inc. 2019-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6375256/ /pubmed/30775167 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6315 Text en © 2019 Rosenberg et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Rosenberg, Merilin
Ilić, Krunoslav
Juganson, Katre
Ivask, Angela
Ahonen, Merja
Vinković Vrček, Ivana
Kahru, Anne
Potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports
title Potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports
title_full Potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports
title_fullStr Potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports
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title_short Potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports
title_sort potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30775167
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6315
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