Microbicides

Known as: Anti-Microbial Agents, [AM000] ANTIMICROBIALS, antimicrobial drug 
Generically, any agent that destroys microbes. However, usage of the term is increasingly being confined to agents that prevent or reduce the… (More)
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2017
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2017
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017.
Importance The human and financial costs of treating surgical site infections (SSIs) are increasing. The number of surgical… (More)
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): Ancient compounds that represent novel weapons in the fight against bacteria.
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short peptidic molecules produced by most living creatures. They help unicellular organisms to… (More)
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Review
2016
Review
2016
Galleria mellonella infection models for the study of bacterial diseases and for antimicrobial drug testing
Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth or honeycomb moth) has been introduced as an alternative model to study microbial… (More)
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2016
Review
2016
Fabrication of Metal Nanoparticles from Fungi and Metal Salts: Scope and Application
Fungi secrete enzymes and proteins as reducing agents which can be used for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles from metal salts… (More)
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2012
Highly Cited
2012
Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance.
Many different definitions for multidrug-resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pandrug-resistant (PDR) bacteria… (More)
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2012
Highly Cited
2012
Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, 2012
To provide an update to the “Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock,” last… (More)
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Review
2009
Review
2009
Silver nanoparticles as a new generation of antimicrobials.
Silver has been in use since time immemorial in the form of metallic silver, silver nitrate, silver sulfadiazine for the… (More)
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Review
2002
Review
2002
Biofilms: survival mechanisms of clinically relevant microorganisms.
Though biofilms were first described by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the theory describing the biofilm process was not developed… (More)
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2001
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2001
Mechanisms of biofilm resistance to antimicrobial agents.
Biofilms are communities of microorganisms attached to a surface. It has become clear that biofilm-grown cells express properties… (More)
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1966
Highly Cited
1966
Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method.
In the words of the authors, the paper by A. W. Bauer et al., from the University of Washington in Seattle, on a standardized… (More)
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