Chitosan Coupling Makes Microbial Biofilms Susceptible to Antibiotics

Microbial biofilms, prevalent in nature and inherently resistant to both antimicrobial agents and host defenses, can cause serious problems in the chemical, medical and pharmaceutical industries. Herein we demonstrated that conjugation of an aminoglycoside antibiotic (streptomycin) to chitosan could...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Amin, Mu, Haibo, Zhang, Wuxia, Cui, Guoting, Zhu, Jie, Duan, Jinyou
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3842539/