The acronym ESKAPE includes six nosocomial pathogens that exhibit multidrug resistance
and virulence: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae …

Considering increasing number of pathogens resistant towards commonly used antibiotics
as well as antiseptics, there is a pressing need for antimicrobial approaches that are …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT)
combine light and photosensitizers to treat cancers and microbial infections, respectively. In …

One class of carbon nanomaterials is the closed cages known as fullerenes. The first
member to be discovered in 1985 was C60, called “buckminsterfullerene” as its cage …

The high prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causing skin
and soft tissue infections in both the community and healthcare settings challenges the …

Little is known about the role of iodine in plant physiology. We evaluated the impact of low
concentrations of iodine on the phenotype, transcriptome and proteome of Arabidopsis …

Antimicrobial photodynamic treatment (aPDT) is a light-based method developed for the
inactivation of microorganisms. With the emergence of antifungal-and antibiotic-resistant …

Oral infection is a common clinical symptom. While antibiotics are widely employed as the
primary treatment for oral diseases, the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria has …

Resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics has led to research on various therapeutic
strategies with different mechanisms of action, including photodynamic inactivation (PDI). In …

Since the early work of the 1900s it has been axiomatic that photodynamic action requires
the presence of sufficient ambient oxygen. The Type I photochemical pathway involves …