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REVIEW article

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.
Sec. Biomaterials
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2024.1431949

Advances of antimicrobial dressings loaded with antimicrobial agents in infected wounds

Provisionally accepted
Yifan Gou Yifan Gou 1Liwei Hu Liwei Hu 2Xuejuan Liao Xuejuan Liao 2Jing He Jing He 2*Fan Liu Fan Liu 2*
  • 1 North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province, China
  • 2 West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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    Wound healing is a complex process that is critical for maintaining the barrier function of the skin. However, when a large quantity of microorganisms invade damaged skin for an extended period, they can cause local and systemic inflammatory responses. If left untreated, this condition may lead to chronic infected wounds. Infected wounds significantly escalate wound management costs worldwide and impose a substantial burden on patients and healthcare systems. Recent clinical trial results suggest that the utilization of effective antimicrobial wound dressing could represent the simplest and most cost-effective strategy for treating infected wounds, but there has hitherto been no comprehensive evaluation reported on the efficacy of antimicrobial wound dressings in promoting wound healing. Therefore, this review aims to systematically summarize the various types of antimicrobial wound dressings and the current research on antimicrobial agents, thereby providing new insights for the innovative treatment of infected wounds.

    Keywords: Wound dressings, antimicrobials, infected wounds, Wound Healing, Biomaterials

    Received: 13 May 2024; Accepted: 23 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Gou, Hu, Liao, He and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Jing He, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
    Fan Liu, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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