Microbial removal
AssigneeCapretto Ehf.
InventorSveinbjorn Gizurarson
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Abstract
Methoxy polyethylene glycol for use as a medicament, in particular in skin healing, wound healing and treatment of a microbial infection. A method for treating a medical device and/or implant to reduce or eliminate microbial contamination comprises applying a liquid formulation comprising methoxy polyethylene glycol. This invention relates to the novel discovery that methoxy polyethylene glycol, an inactive polymer with no known pharmacological effect, was able to come between microbes and a surface, removing the microbes or releasing the attachment or adherence of the microbes to the surface and thereby improving wound healing significantly, eliminating infections and colonies of microbes.
Claims20
A method for treating a medical device and/or implant to reduce or eliminate microbicidal contamination of said device or implant, comprising applying to a surface of said device or implant a liquid formulation comprising methoxy polyethylene glycol, wherein said liquid formulation does not contain additional active microbicidal agents, antiviral agents, or antifungal agents.
A method for:
- treating or preventing a microbial infection;
- skin healing;
- the removal or reduction of microbes from mucosa, skin, or a wound;
- and/or treating a skin wound, the method comprising topically administering methoxy polyethylene glycol as an active film-forming ingredient in a liquid, semi-liquid formulation, or formulation releasing liquid, wherein the methoxy polyethylene glycol forms a thin film covering a treated surface to make at least one microbe unable to adhere or attach to the treated surface.
A method, comprising:
- topically administering methoxy polyethylene glycol as a medicament to a surface of a mammal to form a thin film on the surface for the treatment or prevention of microbial infection by a virus, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, or parasite, the methoxy polyethylene glycol being an active ingredient, wherein the thin film destroys or reduces the attachment of microbes by starving the microbes of nutrients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.