Photoinactivation of Acinetobacter baumannii and Escherichia coli B by a cationic hydrophilic porphyrin at various light wavelengths

Current Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 408-414

  Nitzan, Yeshayahu ^a   Ashkenazi, Helena ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL VIABILITY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHILICITY; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACINETOBACTER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS;

EID: 0035024219     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002840010238     Document Type: Article

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