Metallic Structures: Effective Agents to Fight Pathogenic Microorganisms

The current worldwide pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had alerted the population to the risk that small microorganisms can create for humankind’s wellbeing and survival. All of us have been affected, directly or indirectly, by this situation, and scientists all over the world...

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Autores principales: Pereira, Diana, Carreira, Tiago Soares, Alves, Nuno, Sousa, Ângela, Valente, Joana F. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35163090
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23031165
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author Pereira, Diana
Carreira, Tiago Soares
Alves, Nuno
Sousa, Ângela
Valente, Joana F. A.
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description The current worldwide pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had alerted the population to the risk that small microorganisms can create for humankind’s wellbeing and survival. All of us have been affected, directly or indirectly, by this situation, and scientists all over the world have been trying to find solutions to fight this virus by killing it or by stop/decrease its spread rate. Numerous kinds of microorganisms have been occasionally created panic in world history, and several solutions have been proposed to stop their spread. Among the most studied antimicrobial solutions, are metals (of different kinds and applied in different formats). In this regard, this review aims to present a recent and comprehensive demonstration of the state-of-the-art in the use of metals, as well as their mechanisms, to fight different pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi.
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spelling pubmed-88357602022-02-12 Metallic Structures: Effective Agents to Fight Pathogenic Microorganisms Pereira, Diana Carreira, Tiago Soares Alves, Nuno Sousa, Ângela Valente, Joana F. A. Int J Mol Sci Review The current worldwide pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had alerted the population to the risk that small microorganisms can create for humankind’s wellbeing and survival. All of us have been affected, directly or indirectly, by this situation, and scientists all over the world have been trying to find solutions to fight this virus by killing it or by stop/decrease its spread rate. Numerous kinds of microorganisms have been occasionally created panic in world history, and several solutions have been proposed to stop their spread. Among the most studied antimicrobial solutions, are metals (of different kinds and applied in different formats). In this regard, this review aims to present a recent and comprehensive demonstration of the state-of-the-art in the use of metals, as well as their mechanisms, to fight different pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi. MDPI 2022-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8835760/ /pubmed/35163090 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23031165 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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