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US 2022/0031669 A1Published application
Compositions for Broad Spectrum Topical Antimicrobials
OwnerAllen Gene HIRSH, Cynthia S. Ricardinventors
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In response to the threat of global pandemics and bacterial species becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotic attack, this invention provides systems and methods for reducing the infectivity of bacteria and viruses in the human body by introducing onto the human body or into the human body or onto personal protective equipment or any combination thereof aqueous solutions containing a combination of solutes that simultaneously chemically modify bacterial and viral proteins so as to disrupt their normal function and disrupt the physical integrity of bacterial and viral lipid membranes by providing destabilizing pH, disulfide bond reduction capability, lipid membrane disruption (detergent) capability, hyperosmotic stress and interference with the binding of viral or bacterial proteins to cellular surface proteins.
1) An aqueous solution consisting of at least one buffering component creating a solution pH between pH 2 and pH 10 and at least one disulfide bond reducing component capable of reducing the disulfide bonds of proteins and at least one detergent component capable of degrading the integrity of the lipid membranes of bacteria and/or viruses.
9) An aqueous solution consisting of at least one buffering component creating a solution pH between pH 2 and pH 10 and at least one disulfide bond reducing component capable of reducing the disulfide bonds of proteins and at least one detergent component capable of degrading the integrity of the lipid membranes of bacteria and/or viruses and at least one component that interferes with binding of bacterial and/or viral proteins to proteins on the surface of mammalian cells.
18) An aqueous solution consisting of at least one buffering component creating a solution pH between pH 2 and pH 10 and at least one disulfide bond reducing component capable of reducing the disulfide bonds of proteins and at least one detergent
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