Table 1.

Summary of the water-insoluble antimicrobial polymers discussed in Section 2.2.

Type of Polymer	Tested Species	References
poly-(Quaternary amine methacrylate)-co-(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)	E. coli S. aureus	[43,44,45]
DMAEMA	E. coli	[46]
polyether ether keton	A. niger, A. pullulans, C. globosum, G. virens, P. pinophilum	[47,48,49]
polyethylene terephthalate	E. coli	[50,51]
poly-(vinylbenzyl chloride)-co-(methylmethacrylate)/(2-chloroethylvinyl ether)	C. albicans SC5314, A. flavus, F. oxysporum; B. subtilis, E. coli, S. aureus	[52]
poly-(ε-caprolactone)-co-(α-cloro-ε-caprolactone	E. coli	[53]
(PEG)-MMA-ran-DMAEMA	E. coli, S. aureus, Pseudomonas sp., Dechlorosoma sp.	[54,55]
(methacrylamide) -poly-(2-methyloxazoline)- (N-dodecyl-N,N-dimethylxylylammonium bromide)	S. mutans	[56]
poly-(3-(Methacrylamidomethyl)-pyridine)-ran-(N-isopropylacrylamide)	E. coli, S. Aureus	[57]
poly-(4-vinyl pyridine)-ran-(HEMA)/(PEGMA)	E. coli	[58]
poly-(vinylpyridium halide)-based resins	various bacteria and viruses	[59,60,61,62]
ionene polymers	P. aeruginosa, K. pneumoniae, E. feacalis, M. luteus, B. subtilis var. niger, C. albicans, P. digitatum, A. niger	[63,64,65]
modified polysaccharides	various bacteria	[66]