Potential impact of nanotechnology on the control of infectious diseasesl

被引：66

作者：

Allaker, Robert P. ^{[1
]}

Ren, Guogang ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ London, Inst Dent, London E1 2AT, England

[2] Univ London, Dept Mat, London, England

来源：

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE | 2008年 / 102卷 / 01期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

nanotechnotogy; infectious diseases; immunisation; detection; antimicrobials; cross infection;

D O I：

10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.07.003

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Nanotechnology encompasses those technologies used to fabricate materials, including sphere, cubic and needle-like nanoscated particles (approximately 5-100nm), and near-nanoscaled devices (up to micrometres). In comparison, mycoplasma are approximately 200 nm in length, and a nanometre is 10(-9) of a metre. The field of nanotechnology is experiencing rapid growth, with many and diverse potential applications being explored in the biomedical field, including the control of infectious diseases. Nanotechnology not only has the potential to offer improvements to current approaches for immunisation, drug design and delivery, diagnostics and cross-infection control, but is also unexpectedly delivering many new tools and capabilities. (c) 2007 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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