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Hydrogel Wound Treatment Kills Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria(2021) By Conn  Hasting 

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Hydrogel Wound Treatment Kills Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria(2021) By Conn  Hasting 

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Conn Hasting is a is a Surgeon that from Ireland. He dedicates his studies to drug delivery, nanoparticles in the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular disease, and injectables hydrogels. The website was pubslished by Materials Medicine Military Medicine Surgery on Medgagdet.

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Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden made a antibacterial hydrogel that can eliminate antibiotic-resistant bacteria . It would be a wound dressing with antimicrobial peptides. That being said it's the same bacteria our body makes so it does not cause harm.

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Hydrogel treatment can be used during routine surgery that can prevent post-operative infections.

The type of peptides themselves prevent them making developing resistance against them.

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The problem it break down quickly when it comes into contact with bodily fluids.

Currently still under study.

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What caught my attention was Military Medicine. Then I saw

Hydrogel Wound Treatment Kills Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, which I thought that would make so much sense for the military. Besides the military it can benefit everyone. It's a great new technology. It's scary for patients and staff that you go to the hospital to get help but walk out with MRSA. I hope its approved so we can start using it.

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Hastings, C. (2021), Hydrogel Wound Treatment Kills Antibiotics Resistant Bacteria.Medgagdet.https://www.medgadget.com/2021/05/hydrogel-wound-treatment-kills-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria.html

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an antibacterial hydrogel that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The material is conceived as a wound dressing, and is composed of antimicrobial peptides which are naturally produced by the immune system. The gel binds the peptides together and protects them, yet allows them to still kill bacteria.

Antibiotic resistance is a growing crisis. Infections caused by resistant bacteria can be extremely difficult to treat and cause significant levels of suffering and death each year. If new treatments and technologies are not developed in time, then even undergoing routine surgery could become an unacceptably risky prospect without the means to prevent or treat post-operative infections.

To prevent this dystopian future, researchers are turning to new materials and techniques to kill these bacteria. The new hydrogel is a prime example.

"With these types of peptides, there is a very low risk for bacteria to develop resistance against them, since they only affect the outermost membrane of the bacteria. That is perhaps the foremost reason why they are so interesting to work with," said Martin Andersson, a researcher involved in the study.

While the peptides are highly effective, they are also quite delicate and rapidly degrade when they come into contact with blood. This has been a major limiting factor for researchers who hope to use them as an antibacterial treatment. However, the Swedish researchers have discovered a way to protect the peptides while still maintaining their efficacy.

They bound the peptides within a protective hydrogel, meaning that they degrade much more slowly, and the resulting hydrogel is highly suited as a topical treatment for wounds. "The material is very promising. It is harmless to the body's own cells and gentle on the skin. In our measurements, the protective effect of the hydrogel on the antimicrobial peptides is clear - the peptides degrade much slower when they are bound to it," said Edvin Blomstrand, another researcher involved in the study.

The researchers have developed a spin off company called Amferia AB which is working on commercializing the technology.

Study in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering: Antimicrobial Peptide-Functionalized Mesoporous Hydrogels

Flashback: Hydrogel Scaffold With Self-Forming Fibers Highly Effective for Burn Wounds

Via: Chalmers University of Technology

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Hydrogel Wound Treatment Kills Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an antibacterial hydrogel that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The material is conceived as a wound dressing, and is composed of antimicrobial peptides which are naturally produced by the immune system. The gel binds the peptides together and protects them, yet allows them to still kill bacteria.