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Microbial polysaccharides are a renewable resource that has gained increasing interest for biomedical applications due to their outstanding properties. The abundance of these polysaccharides allows their sustainability and provides monetary value for new functional biomaterials. Furthermore, the increasing worldwide demand for active substances offering several health benefits could be the future source of innovation for microbial polysaccharides. The latest developments involving polysaccharides of microbial origin and their biomedical applications are overviewed herein.
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Oliveira, J.M., Radhouani, H., Reis, R.L. (2021). Introduction. In: Oliveira, J., Radhouani, H., Reis, R.L. (eds) Polysaccharides of Microbial Origin. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35734-4_1-1
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