Biofilms in surgical site infections: recent advances and novel prevention and eradication strategies

A Hrynyshyn, M Simões, A Borges - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are common postoperative occurrences due to contamination
of the surgical wound or implanted medical devices with community or hospital-acquired …

Biopolymers in diabetic wound care management: A potential substitute to traditional dressings

S Hasan, MA Hasan, MU Hassan, M Amin… - European Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
The poor healing of diabetic wound affects large proportion of human beings by high
mortality rate and associated expenditures. Such chronic wounds mainly become …

[HTML][HTML] Polymicrobial infections and biofilms: clinical significance and eradication strategies

VT Anju, S Busi, M Imchen, R Kumavath, MS Mohan… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biofilms are population of cells growing in a coordinated manner and exhibiting resistance
towards hostile environments. The infections associated with biofilms are difficult to control …

Current status and progress in research on dressing management for diabetic foot ulcer

P Jiang, Q Li, Y Luo, F Luo, Q Che, Z Lu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a major complication of diabetes and is associated with a high
risk of lower limb amputation and mortality. During their lifetime, 19%–34% of patients with …

Sonocatalytic hydrogen/hole-combined therapy for anti-biofilm and infected diabetic wound healing

Q Xu, S Chen, L Jiang, C Xia, L Zeng… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
It is a great challenge to effectively eradicate biofilm and cure biofilm-infected diseases
because dense extracellular polymeric substance matrix prevents routine antibacterial …

Self-redox reaction driven in situ formation of Cu2O/Ti3C2Tx nanosheets boost the photocatalytic eradication of multi-drug resistant bacteria from infected wound

YJ Hsu, A Nain, YF Lin, YT Tseng, YJ Li… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background MXenes with interesting optical and electrical properties have been attractive in
biomedical applications such as antibacterial and anticancer agents, but their low …

Micro and nanoformulations of insulin: new approaches

M Alavi, MR Hamblin, F Martinez, E Aghaie… - Nano Micro …, 2022 - nmb-journal.com
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease, which in a severe form needs daily subcutaneous
injections of insulin to prevent symptoms, especially diabetic foot ulcers (DFU). However, the …

Light triggered programmable states of carbon dot liposomes accelerate chronic wound healing via photocatalytic cascade reaction

SC Wei, A Nain, YF Lin, RS Wu, P Srivastava, L Chang… - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacterial infection in chronic wounds causes severe morbidity and mortality by prolonging
the inflammation and proliferation phase during the healing process. Reported carbon …

[HTML][HTML] What's old is new again: Insights into diabetic foot microbiome

AAH Rajab, WAH Hegazy - World Journal of Diabetes, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diabetes is a chronic disease that is considered one of the most stubborn global health
problems that continues to defy the efforts of scientists and physicians. The prevalence of …

[HTML][HTML] Current scenario of traditional medicines in management of diabetic foot ulcers: A review

AS Rayate, BS Nagoba, SS Mumbre… - World journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diabetic foot infections and diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) cause significant suffering and are
often recurring. DFU have three important pathogenic factors, namely, microangiopathy …