An injectable adhesive antibacterial hydrogel wound dressing for infected skin wounds

It's an exigent need for the improvement of novel antibacterial wound dressings with the increasing threats of drug resistance caused by excessive use of the antibiotics. In this work, an injectable, adhesive, hemostatic, biocompatible and bactericidal hydrogel wound dressing was fabricated. An injectable hydrogel can fill the irregular wound due to the characteristic of reversible sol-gel transition, whereas conventional dressings don't possess...