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Broad-Spectrum Anti-Adhesive Coating Based on an Extracellular Polymer from a Marine Cyanobacterium

Medical device-associated infections are a major health threat, representing about half of all hospital-acquired infections. Current strategies to prevent this problem based on device coatings with antimicrobial compounds (antibiotics or antiseptics) have proven to be insufficient, often toxic, and...

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Autores principales: Costa, Bruna, Mota, Rita, Parreira, Paula, Tamagnini, Paula, L. Martins, M. Cristina, Costa, Fabíola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31022915
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md17040243