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The paper is reported the covalent functionalization of single walled carbon nanotubes with ciprofloxacin in order to improve its antibacterial activity against different types of bacteria.
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Why is it important?
it is first time the SWCNTs are functionalized with ciprofloxacin covalently with a high cellular and blood biocompatibility. In addition, the excellent improvment of the antibacterial activity with 16 folds in comparison to the ciprofloxacin alone.
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This page is a summary of: Single-walled carbon nanotubes-ciprofloxacin nanoantibiotic: strategy to improve ciprofloxacin antibacterial activity, International Journal of Nanomedicine, September 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s140625.
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