Intelligent Hybrid Hydrogels for Rapid In-situ Detection and Photothermal Therapy of Bacterial Infection.

Diseases induced by bacterial infections increasingly threaten the health of people all over the world, thus it is urgent and significant to early diagnose and effectively eliminate infections to save people's lives. To this end, we synthesize an intelligent hydrogel that integrated in situ visualized diagnosis and photothermal therapy of bacterial infections. By simply and subtly incorporating pH-sensitive bromothymol blue (BTB) and near-infrared (NIR)-absorbing conjugated polymer (termed as PTDBD) into thermo-sensitive chitosan (CS)-based hydrogel, the synthesized BTB/PTDBD/CS hydrogel can diagnose the acidic microenvironment of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) biofilm and infected wound by showing visualized color change. After rapid diagnosis, the hydrogel can immediately treat the infection site by local hyperthermia under irradiation of NIR laser (808 nm), even the stubborn biofilm that is difficult to eradicate. Since the dominating antibacterial mechanism is hyperthermia, the hybrid hydrogel shows broad-spectrum antibacterial activity against Gram-positive, Gram-negative, and drug resistant bacteria. In addition, it has low cytotoxicity to normal cells and no effect on the main organ of mice. It paves a brand new avenue to develop smart and facile diagnosis and treatment platform for bacterial infections.

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