Blue light rescues mice from potentially fatal pseudomonas aeruginosa burn infection: Efficacy, safety, and mechanism of action

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1238-1245

  Dai, Tianhong ^a,b   Gupta, Asheesh ^a,b,c   Huang, Ying Ying ^a,b,d   Yin, Rui ^a,b,e   Murray, Clinton K ^f   Vrahas, Mark S ^a   Sherwood, Margaret E ^a   Tegos, George P ^a,b,g   Hamblin, Michael R ^a,b,h  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^d GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^h HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPROPORPHYRIN; UROPORPHYRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BLUE LIGHT; BLUE LIGHT THERAPY; BURN INFECTION; CELL DAMAGE; CHROMATOPHORE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; KERATINOCYTE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BURNS; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KERATINOCYTES; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84874067331     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01652-12     Document Type: Article

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