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Chitosan Augments Photodynamic Inactivation of Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria

(2011) Tsuimin Tsai et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Superoxide dismutase is upregulated in Staphylococcus aureus following protoporphyrin-mediated photodynamic inactivation and does not directly influence the response to photodynamic treatment

(2011) Joanna Nakonieczna et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Current challenges in the management of the infected patient

(2011) David P Nicolau   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Complex Cellular Responses of Helicobacter pylori-Colonized Gastric Adenocarcinoma Cells

(2011) Sabine Schneider et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Influence of multidrug efflux systems on methylene blue-mediated photodynamic inactivation of Candida albicans

(2011) R. A. Prates et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Metallo-β-lactamases: a last frontier for β-lactams?

(2011) Giuseppe Cornaglia et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Social interaction in synthetic and natural microbial communities

(2011) J. B. Xavier   Molecular Systems Biology

Microbe outbreak panics Europe

(2011) Marian Turner   NATURE

Caught on film

(2011) Michelle Pflumm   NATURE MEDICINE

Nanoparticles: their potential use in antibacterial photodynamic therapy

(2011) Stefano Perni et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intracellular Targeting Specificity of Novel Phthalocyanines Assessed in a Host-Parasite Model for Developing Potential Photodynamic Medicine

(2011) Sujoy Dutta et al.   PLoS One

Methods for usingGalleria mellonellaas a model host to study fungal pathogenesis

(2011) Beth Burgwyn Fuchs et al.   Virulence

Novel therapies for treatment of multi-drug resistantAcinetobacter baumanniiskin infections

(2011) Mircea Radu Mihu et al.   Virulence

Animal models of external traumatic wound infections

(2011) Tianhong Dai et al.   Virulence

Characterization of Plant-Derived Saponin Natural Products againstCandida albicans

(2010) Jeffrey J. Coleman et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Stable Synthetic Cationic Bacteriochlorins as Selective Antimicrobial Photosensitizers

(2010) L. Huang et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Multifunctional divalent vancomycin: the fluorescent imaging and photodynamic antimicrobial properties for drug resistant bacteria

(2010) Bengang Xing et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

The Effect of a Cationic Porphyrin on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

(2010) Tracy L. Collins et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) Frank R DeLeo et al.   LANCET

VRSA—doomsday superbug or damp squib?

(2010) Ian M Gould   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Laser light combined with a photosensitizer may eliminate methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) Khalil I. Hajim et al.   LASERS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE

Photodynamic therapy for methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureusinfection in a mouse skin abrasion model

(2010) Tianhong Dai et al.   LASERS IN SURGERY AND MEDICINE

Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy: Study of Bacterial Recovery Viability and Potential Development of Resistance after Treatment

(2010) Anabela Tavares et al.   Marine Drugs

Substrate Affinity of Photosensitizers Derived from Chlorophyll-a: The ABCG2 Transporter Affects the Phototoxic Response of Side Population Stem Cell-like Cancer Cells to Photodynamic Therapy

(2010) Janet Morgan et al.   MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS

Rose Bengal-decorated silica nanoparticles as photosensitizers for inactivation of gram-positive bacteria

(2010) Yanyan Guo et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Nanomedicine

(2010) Betty Y.S. Kim et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Antibacterial photodynamic therapy using water-soluble formulations of hypericin or mTHPC is effective in inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) Victoria Engelhardt et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Non-aggregated Ga(iii)-phthalocyanines in the photodynamic inactivation of planktonic and biofilm cultures of pathogenic microorganisms

(2010) Vanya Mantareva et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Efficient Photodynamic Therapy against Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria Using THPTS, a Cationic Photosensitizer Excited by Infrared Wavelength

(2010) Stanislaw Schastak et al.   PLoS One

Candidainfection and colonization among trauma patients

(2010) Dimitra Manolakaki et al.   Virulence

Coevolution between pathogen-derived proteinases and proteinase inhibitors of host insects

(2010) Andreas Vilcinskas   Virulence

Two Coregulated Efflux Transporters Modulate Intracellular Heme and Protoporphyrin IX Availability in Streptococcus agalactiae

(2010) Annabelle Fernandez et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Photodynamic Therapy for Acinetobacter baumannii Burn Infections in Mice

(2009) T. Dai et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Photodynamic therapy: a targeted therapy in periodontics

(2009) M Raghavendra et al.   AUSTRALIAN DENTAL JOURNAL

Calcium phosphate nanoparticles as efficient carriers for photodynamic therapy against cells and bacteria

(2009) J. Schwiertz et al.   BIOMATERIALS

The effect of photodynamic treatment combined with antibiotic action or host defence mechanisms on Staphylococcus aureus biofilms

(2009) Antonella Di Poto et al.   BIOMATERIALS

In vivo killing of Staphylococcus aureus using a light-activated antimicrobial agent

(2009) Parjam S Zolfaghari et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Inactivation of staphylococcal virulence factors using a light-activated antimicrobial agent

(2009) Sarah Tubby et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Efflux-Mediated Antifungal Drug Resistance

(2009) R. D. Cannon et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Photoinactivation of Candida albicans by Its Own Endogenous Porphyrins

(2009) Sarit Oriel et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Photodynamic inactivation ofAeromonas hydrophilaby cationic phthalocyanines with different hydrophobicity

(2009) Veselin Kussovski et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Porphyrin derivatives as photosensitizers for the inactivation ofBacillus cereusendospores

(2009) A. Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of the interaction between liposomal formulations andPseudomonas aeruginosa

(2009) Yimei Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPOSOME RESEARCH

The antibacterial effect of photodynamic therapy in dental plaque-derived biofilms

(2009) C. R. Fontana et al.   JOURNAL OF PERIODONTAL RESEARCH

Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy May Promote Periodontal Healing Through Multiple Mechanisms

(2009) Pam Braham et al.   JOURNAL OF PERIODONTOLOGY

Toluidine blue O photodynamic inactivation on multidrug-resistantpseudomonas aeruginosa

(2009) S.P. Tseng et al.   LASERS IN SURGERY AND MEDICINE

Improved photodynamic inactivation of gram-positive bacteria using hematoporphyrin encapsulated in liposomes and micelles

(2009) Tsuimin Tsai et al.   LASERS IN SURGERY AND MEDICINE

Improved photoinactivation of Gram-negative and Gram-positive methicillin-resistant bacterial strains using a new near-infrared absorbing meso-tetrahydroporphyrin: A comparative study with a chlorine e6 photosensitizer "Photolon"

(2009) S. Schastak et al.   METHODS AND FINDINGS IN EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Fungicidal effect of photodynamic therapy against fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans and Candida glabrata

(2009) Lívia Nordi Dovigo et al.   MYCOSES

Innovative cationic fullerenes as broad-spectrum light-activated antimicrobials

(2009) Liyi Huang et al.   Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine

Photodynamic therapy for localized infections—State of the art

(2009) Tianhong Dai et al.   Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Inhibitors of Bacterial Multidrug Efflux Pumps Potentiate Antimicrobial Photoinactivation

(2008) G. P. Tegos et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Low hanging fruit in infectious disease drug development

(2008) Carl N Kraus   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Photosensitiser delivery for photodynamic therapy. Part 2: systemic carrier platforms

(2008) Stéphane A Sibani et al.   Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery

TolC-Dependent Exclusion of Porphyrins in Escherichia coli

(2008) R. Tatsumi et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The role of oxygen in the visible-light inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus

(2008) M. Maclean et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Tomsk, Russia: a retrospective cohort study

(2008) Salmaan Keshavjee et al.   LANCET

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

(2008) Mandeep Jassal et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

New Cationic Liposomes as Vehicles ofm-Tetrahydroxyphenylchlorin in Photodynamic Therapy of Infectious Diseases

(2008) Cecilia Bombelli et al.   MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS

A brief overview of photodynamic therapy in Europe

(2008) D. Mitton et al.   Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Photodynamic Therapy for Root Canals Infected with Enterococcus faecalis

(2008) Michelle Bernardes Fonseca et al.   PHOTOMEDICINE AND LASER SURGERY