Abstract The emergence of Multi-Drug-Resistant (MDR) organisms has become a major
worldwide clinical problem. The extensive and routine use of the first-line antibiotics to …

Resistance to antimicrobial drugs is an impending healthcare problem of growing
significance. In the post-antibiotic era, there is a huge push to develop new tools for …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) combines a photosensitiser, light and molecular oxygen to
induce oxidative stress that can be used to kill pathogens, cancer cells and other highly …

One of the most promising alternatives for treating bacterial infections is antimicrobial
photodynamic therapy (aPDT), making the synthesis and application of new photoactive …

Advanced methods for preventing and controlling hospital‐acquired infections via
eradication of free‐floating bacteria and bacterial biofilms are of great interest. In this regard …

Tetrapyrrolic macrocycles have shown increasing importance in photodynamic therapy
(PDT) and diagnosis, mainly due to the possibility of fine-tuning their properties through …

A zinc (II) phthalocyanine substituted with a triamino moiety and its tri-N-methylated
analogue have been prepared and characterized with various spectroscopic methods. Both …

Microbial pathogens have increasingly shown multidrug resistance posing a serious threat
to the public health. Advances in technology are opening novel avenues for discovery of …

Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT) uses non-traditional mechanisms (free
radicals) and is a highly advocated method with promise of inactivating drug-resistance …

Antimicrobial resistance is a most important problem facing the treatment of infectious
diseases. Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment strategy …