Photodynamic and Antibiotic Therapy Impair the Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecium in a Whole Animal Insect Model

Photodynamic and Antibiotic Therapy Impair the Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecium in a Whole Animal Insect Model

Enterococcus faecium has emerged as one of the most important pathogens in healthcare-associated infections worldwide due to its intrinsic and acquired resistance to many antibiotics, including vancomycin. Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) is an alternative therapeutic platform that is curre...

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Main Authors: Hamblin, Michael R., Chibebe Junior, Jose, Fuchs, Beth B., Sabino, Caetano P., Junqueira, Juliana C., Jorge, Antonio O. C., Ribeiro, Martha S., Gilmore, Michael S., Rice, Louis B., Tegos, George P., Mylonakis, Eleftherios
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78564

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