Antimicrobial activity of merocyanine 540: A photosensitizing dye

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-105

  Dunne Jr , William Michael ^a   Slater, William A ^a,b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROCYANINE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; ENTEROBACTER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH INHIBITION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LIGHT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PYRIMIDINONES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0344110455     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00084-4     Document Type: Article

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