Thompson, Mike
Mayo Clinic
Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1 St SW, Rochester, MN 55905; Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, 200 1 St SW, Rochester, MN 55905.
Citations 1
Targeting bacterial biofilms via surface engineering of gold nanoparticles
Giri, Karuna, Yepes, Laura Rivas, Duncan, Bradley , Parameswaran, Praveen Kolumam, Yan, Bo , Jiang, Ying , Bílská, Marcela, Moyano, Daniel F. , Prakash, Y. S. , Thompson, Mike, Thompson, Michael A. , Rotello, Vincent M. , Prakash, Y S
RSC Advances | December 1, 2015 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 128 | Pages: 105551-105559
Bacterial biofilms are associated with persistent infections and antibiotics resistance which substantially complicate patient care. Surface engineering of nanoparticles represents a novel and unconventional approach to disrupt biofilms and target bacterial pathogens.