The inability of a bacteriophage to infect Staphylococcus aureus does not prevent it from specifically delivering a photosensitizer to the bacterium enabling its lethal photosensitization

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-61

  Hope, C K ^a,b   Packer, S ^a   Wilson, M ^a   Nair, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MRSA; PDT; Photodynamic therapy; SnCe6; Tin (IV) chlorin e6

Indexed keywords

CHLORIN E6; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; TIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETHALITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DARKNESS; HUMANS; LASERS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 67249125783     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp157     Document Type: Article

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