A 25-year Patent Landscape of Anti-Biofilm Strategies for Respiratory Tract Infections: Trends, Innovations, and Emerging Clinical Opportunities.
Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) remain a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, and their clinical management is increasingly undermined by the biofilm mode of growth of major respiratory pathogens. Biofilm formation confers profound tolerance to conventional antibiotics through the extracellular polymeri...