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Self-Disinfecting Surfaces and Infection Control

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dc.contributor.authorQuerido, Micaela Machado
dc.contributor.authorAguiar, Lívia
dc.contributor.authorNeves, Paula
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Cristiana Costa
dc.contributor.authorTeixeira, João Paulo
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-06T16:47:48Z
dc.date.available2019-03-06T16:47:48Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-16
dc.descriptionReviewpt_PT
dc.description.abstractAccording to World Health Organization, every year in the European Union, 4 million patients acquire a healthcare associated infection. Even though some microorganisms represent no threat to healthy people, hospitals harbor different levels of immunocompetent individuals, namely patients receiving immunosuppressors, with previous infections, or those with extremes of age (young children and elderly), requiring the implementation of effective control measures. Public spaces have also been found an important source of infectious disease outbreaks due to poor or none infection control measures applied. In both places, surfaces play a major role on microorganisms' propagation, yet they are very often neglected, with very few guidelines about efficient cleaning measures and microbiological assessment available. To overcome surface contamination problems, new strategies are being designed to limit the microorganisms' ability to survive over surfaces and materials. Surface modification and/or functionalization to prevent contamination is a hot-topic of research and several different approaches have been developed lately. Surfaces with anti-adhesive properties, with incorporated antimicrobial substances or modified with biological active metals are some of the strategies recently proposed. This review intends to summarize the problems associated with contaminated surfaces and their importance on infection spreading, and to present some of the strategies developed to prevent this public health problem, namely some already being commercialized.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors acknowledge the funding provided by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT - Portugal) through the scholarship SFRH/BD/130203/2017 (Micaela Machado Querido) and the project“B-SAFECOAT - Desenvolvimento de novas tintas com propriedades auto-desinfetantes”(POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017875)pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationColloids Surf B Biointerfaces. 2019 Feb 16;178:8-21. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2019.02.009. [Epub ahead of print]pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.colsurfb.2019.02.009pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0927-7765
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/6080
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherElsevierpt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927776519300839?via%3Dihub
dc.subjectHealthcare Facilitiespt_PT
dc.subjectInfection Controlpt_PT
dc.subjectMicrobiological Risk Assessmentpt_PT
dc.subjectPublic Spacespt_PT
dc.subjectSelf-disinfecting Surfacespt_PT
dc.subjectAgentes Microbianos e Ambientept_PT
dc.titleSelf-Disinfecting Surfaces and Infection Controlpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage21pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage8pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleColloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfacespt_PT
oaire.citation.volume178pt_PT
rcaap.rightsembargoedAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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