Can biowarfare agents be defeated with light?

Virulence

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 796-825

  Vatansever, Fatma ^a,b   Ferraresi, Cleber ^a,c,d   de Sousa, Marcelo Victor Pires ^a,d   Yin, Rui ^a,b,e   Rineh, Ardeshir ^a,f   Sharma, Sulbha K ^a,g   Hamblin, Michael R ^a,b,h  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^g RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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

Author keywords

Bioterrorism; Biowarfare; Blue light inactivation; Germicidal ultraviolet; Microbial cells; Photo inactivation; Photocatalysis; Photocatalytic inactivation; Photodynamic therapy; Psorales; Titanium dioxide; Ultraviolet light; UV dosimeters

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; ACTIVATED CARBON; AMOTOSALEN; AMOXICILLIN; ANTHRAX VACCINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BOTULINUM ANTISERUM; CEFTAZIDIME; CIDOFOVIR; CIPROFLOXACIN; DENGUE VACCINE; DOXYCYLINE; FULLERENE; GENTAMICIN; LAXATIVE; LM DELTAUVRAB VACCINE; LM VACCINE; PORPHYRIN; PSORALEN; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; RIBAVIRIN; RICIN; RIFAMPICIN; ROSE BENGAL; SULFANILAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; TOXIN;

ANTHRAX; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENT; BOTULISM; BRUCELLOSIS; FEMTOSECOND LASER; GERMICIDAL ULTRAVIOLET; GLANDERS; HUMAN; LASSA FEVER; LIGHT; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MELIOIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTO INACTIVATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PLAGUE; Q FEVER; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SMALLPOX; TULAREMIA; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; BACTERIUM; BIOWARFARE; BLUE LIGHT INACTIVATION; FUNGUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CELLS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHOTOCATALYTIC INACTIVATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSORALES; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; UV DOSIMETERS; VIRUS;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

BIOTERRORISM; BIOWARFARE; BLUE LIGHT INACTIVATION; GERMICIDAL ULTRAVIOLET; MICROBIAL CELLS; PHOTO INACTIVATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC INACTIVATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PSORALES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; UV DOSIMETERS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS; FUNGI; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VIRUSES;

EID: 84888387108     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/viru.26475     Document Type: Article

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