Development of Photodynamic Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (PACT) for Clostridium difficile.

Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and pseudo membranous colitis in the developed world. The aim of this study was to explore whether Photodynamic Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (PACT) could be used as a novel approach to treating C. difficile infections.PACT u...

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Main Authors: Luisa De Sordi, M Adil Butt, Hayley Pye, Darina Kohoutova, Charles A Mosse, Gokhan Yahioglu, Ioanna Stamati, Mahendra Deonarain, Sinan Battah, Derren Ready, Elaine Allan, Peter Mullany, Laurence B Lovat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4551672?pdf=render