Microbial Composition of Oral Biofilms after Visible Light and Water-Filtered Infrared a Radiation (VIS+wIRA) in Combination with Indocyanine Green (ICG) as Photosensitizer

In view of increasing antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) is an alternative treatment method used to eradicate the microbial community of oral biofilms that can be responsible for different oral infections. In order to investigate changes in the microbial composition aft...

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Main Authors: Thomas Burchard, Lamprini Karygianni, Elmar Hellwig, Annette Wittmer, Ali Al-Ahmad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Antibiotics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/9/9/532