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| Title |
Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants are susceptible to light activated antimicrobial agents
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Microbiology, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-13-201 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sarah Tubby, Michael Wilson, John A Wright, Ping Zhang, Sean P Nair |
| Abstract |
Antibiotic therapy can select for small colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus that are more resistant to antibiotics and can result in persistent infections, necessitating the development of more effective antimicrobial strategies to combat small colony variant infections. Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment approach which utilises light in combination with a light-activated antimicrobial agent to kill bacteria via a non-specific mechanism of action. In this study, we investigated whether the combination of 665 nm laser light and the light-activated antimicrobial agent methylene blue was able to successfully kill S. aureus small colony variants. S. aureus and isogenic stable small colony variant were exposed to varying doses (1.93 to 9.65 J/cm2) of 665 nm laser light in the presence of varying concentrations (1 to 20 μM) of methylene blue. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 41 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 39 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 27% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 10% |
| Unknown | 5 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 24% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 20% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 10% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 8 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 15 October 2013.
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#2,054,330
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Outputs from BMC Microbiology
#125
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#18,546
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#1
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