Photodynamic effects of antioxidant substituted porphyrin photosensitizers on gram-positive and -negative bacteria

From: Photochemistry and Photobiology | Date: February 1, 2003| Author: Gal, Dezso; Nitzan, Yeshayahu; Ashkenazi, Helena | Copyright information

Photodynamic Effects of Antioxidant Substituted Porphyrin Photosensitizers on Gram-positive and -negative Bacterial

ABSTRACT

Photodynamic treatment of the gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli B and Acinetobacter baumannii and the gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus was performed using two newly devised and synthesized antioxidant carrier photosensitizers (antioxidant carrier sensitizers-2 [ACS-2] and antioxidant carrier sensitizers-3 [ACS-3]), which are butyl hydr...

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