Death by light: Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 08:56
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective. In the battle against resistant microbes, a team at the University of Münster (Germany) is now pursuing a new approach involving photodynamic therapy, which is a technique that is already being used in the treatment of certain forms of cancer and macular degeneration.