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April 28, 2017BioengineeredOpen Access

Anti-microbial coating innovations to prevent infectious diseases (AMiCI): Cost action ca15114

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CDColum DunneMKMinna M. Keinänen‐ToivolaAKAnne Kahru

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Overview

Consortium report reveals limited clinical evidence for antimicrobial coatings in healthcare settings, highlighting the need for standardized efficacy and safety assessments.

Key Points

  • To introduce the European AMiCI COST Action consortium and address critical knowledge gaps regarding the clinical efficacy, safety, and regulation of antimicrobial coatings in healthcare environments.
  • Formed an interdisciplinary European network (COST Action CA15114) comprising over 60 universities, research institutes, and industrial partners across 29 European countries.
  • Coordinated multinational evaluations focusing on antimicrobial nanomaterial mechanisms, standardized testing guidelines, potential environmental toxicities, and the risk of induced microbial resistance.
  • Determined that while coatings (such as copper, silver, titanium, or organosilane) successfully delay pathogen recontamination by MRSA and VRE in vitro, evidence demonstrating reduction of healthcare-associated infections in clinical settings is almost entirely lacking.
  • Established strategic research priorities to systematically evaluate adverse risks, including toxic agent emissions and microbial resistance development, while providing harmonized performance benchmarks for clinical adoption.

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Dunne et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a736dba8412e8bdfca72862https://doi.org/10.1080/21655979.2017.1323593
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