Table 1.

Summary of the strategies reported to fabricate antimicrobial hydrogels. Reproduced with permission from [13].

Type of Antimicrobial Gels		Applications	References
Loaded hydrogels antimicrobials	Silver NPs	Wound dressings and surface coatings	[19,20,21]
	Gold NPs	Wound dressings	[22,23]
	Antibiotics	Wound dressings and implant coatings	[24,25,26]
	Antimicrobial agents	Wound dressings and surface coatings	[27,28,29]
Inherently active hydrogels based on	Peptides	Wound dressings and surface coatings	[30,31,32,33]
	Chitosan	Wound dressings, surgical use and surface coatings	[34,35,36,37,38]
	Synthetic polymers	Surface coatings	[39,40,41]