Antimicrobial composition

  • Declan Naughton (Inventor)

    Research output: Patent

    Abstract

    The invention provides antimicrobial compositions comprising an effective concentration of a metal salt combined with a plant extract. In some embodiments the composition comprises a copper salt and/or an iron salt and/or a nickel salt and/or a cobalt salt; and an extract of a plant selected from a group consisting of Punica granatum, Viburnum plicatum, Camellia sinensis, and Acer spp. The invention extends to uses of such compositions as medicaments, and to methods of treating microbial infections. The invention extends to methods for preventing microbial infections by coating objects and surfaces with the compositions.
    Original languageEnglish
    Patent numberEP2094091 (A2)
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2009

    Bibliographical note

    Patent applicant: Nature Therapeutics Ltd

    Keywords

    • Allied health professions and studies

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