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Journal Article

Light
sources for photodynamic inactivation of bacteria

Journal

Lasers
in Medical Science

Publisher

Springer London

ISSN

0268-8921 (Print) 1435-604X
(Online)

Issue

Volume
24, Number 3 / May, 2009

Category

Review

DOI

10.1007/s10103-008-0588-5

Pages

453-460

Subject Collection

Medicine

SpringerLink Date

Saturday, July 12,
2008

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Light sources for
photodynamic inactivation of bacteria

Mihaela Antonina Calin1  and S. V. Parasca2

(1)

National Institute of
Research and Development for Optoelectronics, P.O. Box
MG-5, 1 Atomistilor Street, 077125 Magurele, Ilfov,
Romania

(2)

Clinical Hospital for
Plastic Surgery and Burns, Bucharest,
Romania

Received:
12 December 2007  Accepted:
26 May 2008  Published
online: 12 July 2008

Abstract  Bacteria have
an important role in human and animal morbidity, and a great
number of them have developed antibiotic resistance. In the
past recent years a new way of dealing with this problem has
been studied: photodynamic inactivation. This method is based
on administration of a photosensitizing substance that fixes
itself in the bacterial cell followed by exposure to a light
source. In the experiments done by many researchers on
photodynamic inactivation of bacteria, both coherent and
non-coherent light sources were used. This article is a review
of these light sources and of some experimental results
obtained by different authors.

Keywords  Bacteria - Light
sources - Photodynamic
inactivation - Photosensitizer

Mihaela Antonina Calin (Corresponding
author)
Email: [email-masked]

S. V. Parasca
Email:
[email-masked]

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