Natural photosensitizers in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

E Polat, K Kang - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Health problems and reduced treatment effectiveness due to antimicrobial resistance have
become important global problems and are important factors that negatively affect life …

A review on the research progress on non-pharmacological therapy of Helicobacter pylori

Q Luo, N Liu, S Pu, Z Zhuang, H Gong… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic microorganism that mainly resides in the human stomach
and is the major cause of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. Up to now, the …

Dual-wavelength light radiation for synergistic water disinfection

G Matafonova, V Batoev - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of the narrow-band mercury-free light sources, such as light emitting
diodes (LEDs) and excilamps, has stimulated research on inactivation of pathogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Photoinactivation of catalase sensitizes a wide range of bacteria to ROS-producing agents and immune cells

PT Dong, S Jusuf, J Hui, Y Zhan, Y Zhu, GY Liu… - JCI insight, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bacteria have evolved to cope with the detrimental effects of ROS using their essential
molecular components. Catalase, a heme-containing tetramer protein expressed universally …

[HTML][HTML] Preliminary studies of antimicrobial activity of new synthesized hybrids of 2-thiohydantoin and 2-quinolone derivatives activated with blue light

A Kania, W Tejchman, AM Pawlak, K Mokrzyński… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Thiohydantoin and quinolone derivatives have attracted researchers' attention because of a
broad spectrum of their medical applications. The aim of our research was to synthesize and …

Advances in micro/nanodrug delivery systems for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection: From diagnosis to eradication

F Bu, X Song, X Zhao, R Wang, Y **e, L Yu… - Applied Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
About half of the global population is infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Due to the
high adaptability of H. pylori and the low targeting specificity of traditional drug therapies, H …

A new high-throughput-screening-assay for photoantimicrobials based on EUCAST revealed unknown photoantimicrobials in cortinariaceae

J Fiala, H Schöbel, P Vrabl, D Dietrich… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest health and subsequent economic threat
humanity faces. Next to massive global awareness campaigns, governments and NGOs …

Microbial photoinactivation by visible light results in limited loss of membrane integrity

K Hoenes, R Bauer, B Spellerberg, M Hessling - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Interest in visible light irradiation as a microbial inactivation method has widely increased
due to multiple possible applications. Resistance development is considered unlikely …

Photodynamic Inactivation of Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens and Their Biofilms

M Mušković, I Gobin, N Malatesti - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) form a group of microorganisms that
normally live in water supply systems and have adapted especially well to the conditions in …

Innovative Phosphorene Nanoplatform for Light Antimicrobial Therapy

E Passaglia, A Sgarbossa - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Over the past few years, antibiotic resistance has reached global dimensions as a major
threat to public health. Consequently, there is a pressing need to find effective alternative …