Photobactericides - A local option against multi-drug resistant bacteria

Antibiotics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 182-190

  Wainwright, Mark ^a   Amaral, Leonard ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Conventional resistance mechanisms; Methylene blue; Photobactericide

Indexed keywords

BACTERICIDE; BETA LACTAMASE; PHOTOBACTERICIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DRUG INACTIVATION; EFFUSION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84893174657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20796382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics2020182     Document Type: Article

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