Chitosan and their derivatives: Antibiofilm drugs against pathogenic bacteria

F Khan, DTN Pham, SF Oloketuyi… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biofilm formed by several pathogenic bacteria results in the development of resistance
against antimicrobial compounds. The polymeric materials present in the biofilm architecture …

Innovative strategies toward the disassembly of the EPS matrix in bacterial biofilms

RM Pinto, FA Soares, S Reis, C Nunes… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial biofilms represent a major concern at a worldwide level due to the high demand for
implantable medical devices and the rising numbers of bacterial resistance. The complex …

Antimicrobial resistance and inorganic nanoparticles

AS Balderrama-González, HA Piñón-Castillo… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics are being less effective, which leads to high mortality in patients with infections
and a high cost for the recovery of health, and the projections that are had for the future are …

Therapeutic strategies against biofilm infections

S Mishra, A Gupta, V Upadhye, SC Singh, RP Sinha… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
A biofilm is an aggregation of surface-associated microbial cells that is confined in an
extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix. Infections caused by microbes that form …

Chitin and chitosan derivatives as biomaterial resources for biological and biomedical applications

S Satitsri, C Muanprasat - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chitin is a long-chain polymer of N-acetyl-glucosamine, which is regularly found in the
exoskeleton of arthropods including insects, shellfish and the cell wall of fungi. It has been …

Retrospective analysis of the key molecules involved in the green synthesis of nanoparticles

F Khan, GJ Jeong, P Singh, N Tabassum, I Mijakovic… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Emerging nanotechnology leads to success in synthesizing and applying nanoparticles
(NPs) using the green-chemistry approach. NPs synthesized using naturally derived …

Novel strategies to combat bacterial biofilms

F Hemmati, MA Rezaee, S Ebrahimzadeh… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Biofilms are considered as a severe problem in the treatment of bacterial infections; their
development causes some noticeable resistance to antibacterial agents. Biofilms are …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence attenuation by inhibiting siderophore functions

GJ Jeong, F Khan, S Khan, N Tabassum… - Applied Microbiology …, 2023 - Springer
Pseudmonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium known to be ubiquitous and
recognized as one of the leading causes of infections such as respiratory, urinary tract …

Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans polymicrobial biofilms by phloroglucinol-gold nanoparticles

N Tabassum, GJ Jeong, DM Jo, F Khan, YM Kim - Microbial Pathogenesis, 2023 - Elsevier
The co-isolation of Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans from host tissues and
organs and their in vitro and in vivo interaction studies suggest a synergistic relationship in …

Composite materials based on chitosan/gold nanoparticles: From synthesis to biomedical applications

AB da Silva, KB Rufato, AC de Oliveira… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional strategies (Turkevich's, and modified Turkevich's methods) often synthesize
gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). These pathways produce AuNPs using toxic chemistries to …