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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2013
Arch Chemicals, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
George Polson, Jasper, GA (US);
Jody Jourden, Atlanta, GA (US);
Qi Zheng, Cumming, GA (US);
Regina M. Prioli, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Diana Ciccognani, Cumming, GA (US);
Sungmee Choi, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Arch Chemicals, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention, therefore, is directed to an antimicrobial compositions that decreases the bioavailability of iron by introducing a higher-affinity iron-selective chelating agent capable of competing with microbial siderophores. In one aspect, the present invention relates to an antimicrobial composition including a potentiating antimicrobial composition including one or more antimicrobial agents and a chelator having a weight ratio of the antimicrobial agent to the chelator from about 1:1000 to about 1000:1.