ReviewColloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces2019
Self-disinfecting surfaces and infection control.
Review in Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 132 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 (TSST-1) inToxins · 2025Review
- Does Extreme Wettability Matter: The Effect of Copper Wettability on Infection Spread through Hospital Surfaces.ACS omega · 2025Article
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- Inactivation of multidrug-resistant bacteria using cold atmospheric-pressure plasma technology.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
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- Revealing Commercial Epoxy Resins' Antimicrobial Activity: A Combined Chemical-Physical, Mechanical, and Biological Study.Polymers · 2024Article
- Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy: Self-Disinfecting Surfaces for Controlling Microbial Infections.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- Physicochemical methods for disinfection of contaminated surfaces - a way to control infectious diseases.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2024Review
- Kinetics of inactivation of bacteria responsible for infections in hospitals using UV-LED.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Utilizing Rapid Hydrogen Peroxide Generation from 6-Hydroxycatechol to Design Moisture-Activated, Self-Disinfecting Coating.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2024Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
According to World Health Organization, every year in the European Union, 4 million patients acquire a healthcare associated infection. Even though some microorganisms represent no threat to healthy people, hospitals harbor different levels of immunocompetent individuals, namely patients receiving immunosuppressors, with previous infections, or those with extremes of age (young children and elderly), requiring the implementation of effective control measures. Public spaces have also been found an important source of infectious disease outbreaks due to poor or none infection control measures applied. In both places, surfaces play a major role on microorganisms' propagation, yet they are very often neglected, with very few guidelines about efficient cleaning measures and microbiological assessment available. To overcome surface contamination problems, new strategies are being designed to limit the microorganisms' ability to survive over surfaces and materials. Surface modification and/or functionalization to prevent contamination is a hot-topic of research and several different approaches have been developed lately. Surfaces with anti-adhesive properties, with incorporated antimicrobial substances or modified with biological active metals are some of the strategies recently proposed. This review intends to summarize the problems associated with contaminated surfaces and their importance on infection spreading, and to present some of the strategies developed to prevent this public health problem, namely some already being commercialized.
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