Photodynamic Therapy Can Induce a Protective Innate Immune Response against Murine Bacterial Arthritis via Neutrophil Accumulation

Background: Local microbial infections induced by multiple-drug-resistant bacteria in the orthopedic field can be intractable, therefore development of new therapeutic modalities is needed. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising alternative modality to antibiotics for intractable microbial infec...

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Main Authors: Tanaka, Masamitsu, Mroz, Pawel, Dai, Tianhong, Huang, Liyi, Morimoto, Yuji, Kinoshita, Manabu, Yoshihara, Yasuo, Nemoto, Koichi, Shinomiya, Nariyoshi, Seki, Suhji, Hamblin, Michael R.
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72385