Antibacterial gas therapy: Strategies, advances, and prospects

One of the challenges posed by current antibacterial therapy is that the expanded and massive use of antibiotics endows bacteria with the ability to resist almost all kinds of antibiotics. Therefore, developing alternative strategies for efficient antibacterial treatment is urgently needed. Antibacterial gas therapy has attracted much attention in the past decade. Nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO