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SUBMITTER: Stamo DF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9419411 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stamo Dana F DF Nagpal Prashant P Chatterjee Anushree A
Nanoscale advances 20210421 10
CdTe-2.4 eV quantum dots (QDs) show excellent efficacy due to their tunability and photo-potentiation for sterilizing drug-resistant planktonic cultures without harming mammalian cells but this QD fabrication has not been tested against biofilms. While the QD attack mechanism-production of superoxide radicals-is known to stimulate biofilm formation, here we demonstrate that CdTe-2.4 eV QD-antibiotic combination therapy can nearly eradicate <i>Escherichia coli</i>, methicillin-resistant <i>Staphy ...[more]