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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"polyhexamethylene biguanide"”.
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Novel cationic polymers for use at biological interfaces
… of polymeric antibacterial agents, in particular polyhexamethylene biguanide, has revealed that the essential components for the design of a novel polymeric antibacterial are a balance between hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity coupled with sites of cationicity. The effect of cation incorporation …
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Antibacterial and Laundering Properties of Ams and Phmb as Finishing Agents for Healthcare Workers Uniforms
… chloride) or AEGIS Microbeshield, (AMS) and polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB) or Reputexâ · before laundering and after 5, 10, and 25 laundering cycles. The independent variables were the treatments (i.e., AMS, PHMB, no treatment) and the laundering cycles (i.e., 0, 5, 10, 25). The dependent …
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Establishing an ex vivo model of acanthamoeba keratitis and investigating the phenotypic similarities between the protozoan acanthamoeba and human macrophages
… to investigate the efficacy of doxycycline and polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB) in stopping the disease progression and the results demonstrated the ability of PHMB to inactivate Acanthamoeba trophozoites with minimal toxicity to the corneal epithelium. Doxycycline was not found to have any …
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Developing novel therapeutic agents for Acanthamoeba infection and investigating the process of encystment
… to the current medical treatments involving polyhexamethylene biguanide or chlorhexidine despite the in vitro sensitivity of Acanthamoeba to these drugs. There is an urgent need for new therapeutic agents to eradicate the AK infection. This study focuses on the mechanism by which Acanthamoeba …
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Nanocellulose-based materials for sustainable soil remediation and water purification
… and heavy metals from water. The grafted polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB) endows the biomimetic aerogel with exceptional bactericidal activity. The incorporated sericin protein brings abundant surface functional groups for heavy metal complexation. Moreover, this study provides in-depth …
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An in-vitro study investigating current and novel antimicrobial agents as potential topical treatments for cutaneous infections caused by bacteria, fungi and Leishmania
… MIC, MBC, time-kill, and EC50 assays. Results Polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB) is a widely used antiseptic and treatment agent. MIC/MBC and time-kill assays revealed no significant difference in activity between PHMB, polyamidopropyl biguanide (PAPB), and polyhexamethylene guanide (PHMG) (p > …