Back to results
US 2020/0138024 A1Published application
A method for biofilm dispersal
AssigneesDdp Specialty Electronic Materials US, LLC, The Pennsylvania State University
InventorsBei Yin, Thomas Wood, Venkata Giridhar Poosarla
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for dispersing biofilm using mannose and its analogs.
Claims6
A method to disperse existing biofilm comprising:
- i. providing a biofilm;
- and
- ii. contacting the biofilm with a compound selected from the group consisting of mannose, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DG), methyl α-D-mannopyranoside (αMM), methyl α-D-glucopyranoside (αMG), and mixtures thereof to disperse the biofilm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.