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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

ZnO Nanoparticles-Modified Dressings to Inhibit Wound Pathogens.

Sajjad Mohsin I Rayyif, Hamzah Basil Mohammed, Carmen Curuțiu, Alexandra Cătălina Bîrcă, Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu, Bogdan Ștefan Vasile, Lia Mara Dițu, Veronica Lazăr, Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc, Grigore Mihăescu and 1 more

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sajjad Mohsin I RayyifMicrobiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 77206 Bucharest, Romania.
Hamzah Basil MohammedMicrobiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 77206 Bucharest, Romania.
Carmen CuruțiuMicrobiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 77206 Bucharest, Romania.
Alexandra Cătălina BîrcăDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.
Alexandru Mihai GrumezescuResearch Institute of the University of Bucharest-ICUB, University of Bucharest, 050657 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-3036-094X
Bogdan Ștefan VasileDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.
Lia Mara DițuMicrobiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 77206 Bucharest, Romania.
Veronica LazărMicrobiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 77206 Bucharest, Romania.
Mariana Carmen ChifiriucMicrobiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 77206 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-6098-1857
Grigore MihăescuMicrobiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 77206 Bucharest, Romania.
Alina Maria HolbanMicrobiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 77206 Bucharest, Romania.
University of Bucharest · ROUniversitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (NPs) have been investigated for various skin therapies in recent years. These NPs can improve the healing and modulate inflammation in the wounds, but the mechanisms involved in such changes are yet to be known. In this study, we have designed a facile ZnO nano-coated dressing with improved antimicrobial efficiency against typical wound pathogens involved in biofilm and chronic infections. ZnO NPs were obtained by hydrothermal method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Antibacterial and antibiofilm effects were evaluated against laboratory and clinical isolates of significant Gram-negative (

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antimicrobial nanoparticlesbiofilm controlchronic woundsopportunistic pathogensZnO nano-coatings

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