Table 1.

A short list of topical antimicrobial agents used for burn therapy.

Agent class	Specific agent/Product	Application	References
Topical antibiotics	Mafenide acetate	Clinical 2nd/3rd-degree burns	Haynes, 1971
	Bacitracin	Clinical 2nd/3rd-degree burns	Johnson et al., 1945
	Mupirocin	Clinical 2nd/3rd-degree burns	Palmieri and Greenhalgh, 2002
	Neosporin	Clinical 2nd/3rd-degree burns	Sinha et al., 1997
	Polymyxin B	Clinical 2nd/3rd-degree burns	Brown and Wood, 1972
	Nitrofurazone	Clinical 2nd/3 rd degree burns	Munster, 1984
	Nystatin	Clinical 2nd/3rd degree burns, fungal infections	Palmieri and Greenhalgh, 2002
Silver	Silver nitrate	Clinical 2nd/3rd-degree burns	Moyer et al., 1965
	Silver sulfadiazine	Clinical 2nd/3 rd degree burns	Fox, 1968
	Silver foams (Contreet, Allevyn)	Clinical 2nd/3 rd degree burns	Jørgensen et al., 2005
	Flammacerium	Clinical 2nd/3rd-degree burns	Monafo et al., 1976
	Acticoat 7	Clinical 2nd/3 rd degree burns	Fong and Wood, 2006
	Aquacel-Ag	Clinical 2nd/3rd degree burns	Barnea et al., 2010
	Silvercel	Clinical 2nd/3rd-degree burns	Meaume et al., 2005
	Silver amniotic membrane	Clinical 2nd/3 rd degree burns	Sawhney, 1989
Chitosan	Hydrogel	Clinical 2nd-degree burns	Ribeiro et al., 2009
	Film	2nd degree burns in rabbits	Sezer et al., 2008
	Bandage	Mouse burn infections (Psuedomonas, Proteus)	Dai et al., 2009
Antimicrobial peptide	Defensins	In vitro	Ganz, 2009
	Demegel	Pseudomonas infected rat burns	Chalekson et al., 2002
	Histone H1.2	Pseudomonas infected rat burns	Jacobsen et al., 2005
	Cecropin B	Pseudomonas infected mouse wounds	Ren et al., 2006
	rBPI	Clinical trial 2nd-degree burns	Steinstraesser et al., 2008
	Ceragenins	In vitro	Epand et al., 2008

Reproduced with some modifications from (Dai et al., 2010).