important alternative to be used in antimicrobial treatments. In the present work we report the
first photoinactivation of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (Salmonella
Typhimurium) by cationic free-base meso-tetra-(phenyl) porphyrin and its Zn (II) complex
containing peripheral Ru (II)-bipyridyl complexes. Bacterial inoculum (10 7 CFU mL-1) was
incubated with the porphyrins (25 μM) with an irradiation system containing a halogen lamp …