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cord-280184-91d8i6ix	Querido, Micaela Machado	Self-disinfecting surfaces and infection control	2019-06-01		.txt	text/plain	10601	529	33	Surfaces with anti-adhesive properties, with incorporated antimicrobial substances or modified with biological active metals are some of the strategies recently proposed. This review intends to summarize the problems associated with contaminated surfaces and their importance on infection spreading, and to present some of the strategies developed to prevent this public health problem, namely some already being commercialized. This review considered English-language articles retrieved from PubMed database literature searches, bibliographies from published articles, and infection-control books and chapters, in a total of 205 references published between 2000 and 2018, considering the following criteria: the most recent studies performed on microbiological analysis on different surfaces reporting samplings performed on food contact surfaces, public spaces and hospital surfaces, where microorganisms occur naturally. All those antimicrobial substances are loaded to the surface either by immobilization or by incorporation on the bulk material; recent studies on the application of each type of loading strategy are summarized next.	./cache/cord-280184-91d8i6ix.txt	./txt/cord-280184-91d8i6ix.txt