Genetic and physiological effects of noncoherent visible light combined with hydrogen peroxide on Streptococcus mutans in biofilm

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2626-2631

  Steinberg, Doron ^a   Moreinos, Daniel ^a   Featherstone, John ^b   Shemesh, Moshe ^a   Feuerstein, Osnat ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOFILM; BRP GENE; COMDE GENE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FTF GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTFB GENE; LIGHT; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELA GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMU630 GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOUTH; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 46249127871     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01666-07     Document Type: Article

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