Photodynamic and Antibiotic Therapy Impair the Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecium in a Whole Animal Insect Model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Chibebe Junior, José ^a,b,c   Fuchs, Beth B ^b   Sabino, Caetano P ^b,d   Junqueira, Juliana C ^a   Jorge, Antonio O C ^a   Ribeiro, Martha S ^d   Gilmore, Michael S ^e   Rice, Louis B ^f   Tegos, George P ^b,e,g   Hamblin, Michael R ^b,e,h   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^f  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Faculty of Pindamonhangaba   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN; METHYLENE BLUE; PHENOTHIAZINIUM; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATERPILLAR; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; METHYLENE BLUE; MOTHS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS;

EID: 84874006080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055926     Document Type: Article

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