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| Title |
Lethal photosensitization of wound-associated microbes using indocyanine green and near-infrared light
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Microbiology, July 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-8-111 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ghada S Omar, Michael Wilson, Sean P Nair |
| Abstract |
The increase in resistance to antibiotics among disease-causing bacteria necessitates the development of alternative antimicrobial approaches such as the use of light-activated antimicrobial agents (LAAAs). Light of an appropriate wavelength activates the LAAA to produce cytotoxic species which can then cause bacterial cell death via loss of membrane integrity, lipid peroxidation, the inactivation of essential enzymes, and/or exertion of mutagenic effects due to DNA modification. In this study, the effect of the LAAA indocyanine green excited with high or low intensity light (808 nm) from a near-infrared laser (NIR) on the viability of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was investigated. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 62 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 2 | 3% |
| Turkey | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 56 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 15% |
| Researcher | 8 | 13% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 18% |
| Unknown | 11 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 19% |
| Chemistry | 9 | 15% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 5% |
| Engineering | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 9 | 15% |
| Unknown | 12 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 July 2008.
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#4,580,635
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Outputs from BMC Microbiology
#485
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#15,369
of 81,744 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Microbiology
#2
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