Photomechanical drug delivery into bacterial biofilms

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 405-409

  Soukos, Nikolaos S ^a   Socransky, Sigmund S ^b   Mulholland, Stephen E ^a,c   Lee, Shun ^a   Doukas, Apostolos G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

A. viscosus; Biofilm; Confocal scanning laser microscopy; Methylene blue; Photomechanical wave

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCES VISCOSUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOFILM; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; PERMEABILITY; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOMYCES VISCOSUS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOFILMS; CATTLE; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 0034096974     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007568702118     Document Type: Article

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