Health problems and reduced treatment effectiveness due to antimicrobial resistance have
become important global problems and are important factors that negatively affect life …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has become a fundamental tool in modern
therapeutics, notably due to the expanding versatility of photosensitizers (PSs) and the …

Antibacterial photodynamic therapy (APDT) has drawn increasing attention from the
scientific society for its potential to effectively kill multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria and …

Abstract St. John's Wort, commonly known as Hypericum perforatum L., is a flowering plant
in the Clusiaceae family that traditionally been employed for treating anxiety, depression …

Abstract The emergence of Multi-Drug-Resistant (MDR) organisms has become a major
worldwide clinical problem. The extensive and routine use of the first-line antibiotics to …

Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) was discovered over a hundred years ago by its
ability to destroy microorganisms, it has been developed mainly as a cancer therapy. In …

Abstract Candida albicans (C. albicans), a major opportunistic pathogenic fungus, is known
to cause superficial skin infections. Unfortunately, the misuse of antibiotics has led to the …

Hypericin can be derived from St. John's wort, which is widely spread around the world. As a
natural product, it has been put into clinical practice such as wound healing and depression …

Currently, microbial biofilms have been the cause of a wide variety of infections in the
human body, reaching 80% of all bacterial and fungal infections. The biofilms present …

The current viral pandemic has highlighted the compelling need for effective and versatile
treatments, that can be quickly tuned to tackle new threats, and are robust against mutations …