Treatment of Infected Wounds in the Age of Antimicrobial Resistance: Contemporary Alternative Therapeutic Options

Summary: As antibiotic resistance increases and antimicrobial options diminish, there is a pressing need to identify and develop new and/or alternative (non–antimicrobial-based) wound therapies. The authors describe the implications of antibiotic resistance on their current wound treatment paradigms and review the most promising non–antibiotic-based antimicrobial agents currently in research and development, with a focus on preclinical and human studies of therapeutic bacteriophages, antimicrobial peptides, cold plasma treatment, photodynamic therapy, honey, silver, and bioelectric dressings.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

• Publication date

  2018-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1097/PRS.0000000000004799PMID 30252823
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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