COMPOSITION FOR THE USE IN TOPICAL ANTIMICROBIAL OR ANTI-INFECTIVE TREATMENT OF SKIN, SOFT TISSUE AND WOUNDS

• Main Authors: VANDER BEKEN, Seppe, MICKO, Gerald
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 20.10.2021
• Subjects: CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CHEMISTRY; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; ELECTROTHERAPY; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; RADIATION THERAPY; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY

A composition for the use in topical antimicrobial or anti-infective treatment of skin and soft tissue infections is described, the composition includes an antiseptic substance and a photosensitizer at the time of application, wherein the antiseptic substance exerts an antimicrobial or anti-infective effect on microorganisms or their biofilm on skin, soft tissue and wounds and the photosensitizer catalyzes a photodynamic antimicrobial or anti-infective effect upon irradiation with light of appropriate wavelength, power-density and energy-dose, directed at the microorganisms or their biofilm on skin, soft tissue and wounds, for simultaneous application of both the antiseptic substance and the photosensitizer.