Emerging strategies to combat ESKAPE pathogens in the era of antimicrobial resistance: a review

MS Mulani, EE Kamble, SN Kumkar… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The acronym ESKAPE includes six nosocomial pathogens that exhibit multidrug resistance
and virulence: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy–what we know and what we don't

F Cieplik, D Deng, W Crielaard… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Considering increasing number of pathogens resistant towards commonly used antibiotics
as well as antiseptics, there is a pressing need for antimicrobial approaches that are …

Photoantimicrobials—are we afraid of the light?

M Wainwright, T Maisch, S Nonell… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Although conventional antimicrobial drugs have been viewed as miraculous cure-alls for the
past 80 years, increasing antimicrobial drug resistance requires a major and rapid …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy: Latest developments with a focus on combinatory strategies

R Youf, M Müller, A Balasini, F Thétiot, M Müller… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has become a fundamental tool in modern
therapeutics, notably due to the expanding versatility of photosensitizers (PSs) and the …

Photosensitizers in antibacterial photodynamic therapy: An overview

J Ghorbani, D Rahban, S Aghamiri, A Teymouri… - Laser therapy, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Antibacterial Photodynamic therapy (APDT) is a process utilizing light and light sensitive
agents (named photosensitizer (PS)) and is usually applied in an oxygen-rich environment …

[HTML][HTML] Antibacterial photodynamic therapy: overview of a promising approach to fight antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections

Y Liu, R Qin, SAJ Zaat, E Breukink… - Journal of clinical and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Antibacterial photodynamic therapy (APDT) has drawn increasing attention from the
scientific society for its potential to effectively kill multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria and …

An approach to the photocatalytic mechanism in the TiO2-nanomaterials microorganism interface for the control of infectious processes

V Rodríguez-González, S Obregón… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
The approach of this timely review considers the current literature that is focused on the
interface nanostructure/cell-wall microorganism to understand the annihilation mechanism …

Can microbial cells develop resistance to oxidative stress in antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation?

N Kashef, MR Hamblin - Drug Resistance Updates, 2017 - Elsevier
Infections have been a major cause of disease throughout the history of humans on earth.
With the introduction of antibiotics, it was thought that infections had been conquered …

Plants as sources of new antimicrobials and resistance-modifying agents

AC Abreu, AJ McBain, M Simões - Natural product reports, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to November 2011 Infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria are an
increasing problem due to the emergence and propagation of microbial drug resistance and …

Photodynamic therapy: a new antimicrobial approach to infectious disease?

MR Hamblin, T Hasan - Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) employs a non-toxic dye, termed a photosensitizer (PS), and
low intensity visible light which, in the presence of oxygen, combine to produce cytotoxic …