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Targeting bacterial biofilms via surface engineering of gold nanoparticles

Published:2015 Issue:128 Volume:5 Page:105551-105559
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

Giri Karuna¹²³⁴,Rivas Yepes Laura⁵²³⁴⁶,Duncan Bradley⁷⁸⁹⁴,Kolumam Parameswaran Praveen⁵²³⁴,Yan Bo⁷⁸⁹⁴^ORCID,Jiang Ying⁷⁸⁹⁴,Bilska Marcela⁵²³⁴⁶,Moyano Daniel F.⁷⁸⁹⁴,Thompson Michael A.⁵²³⁴,Rotello Vincent M.⁷⁸⁹⁴,Prakash Y. S.⁵²³⁴⁶

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2. Mayo Clinic

3. Rochester

4. USA

5. Department of Anesthesiology

6. Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering

7. Department of Chemistry

8. University of Massachusetts Amherst

9. Amherst

Abstract

Bacterial biofilms are associated with persistent infections and antibiotics resistance which substantially complicate patient care. Surface engineering of nanoparticles represents a novel and unconventional approach to disrupt biofilms and target bacterial pathogens.

Funder

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/RA/C5RA16305F

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