Antibiotics (Jun 2020)

Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy in the Control of COVID-19

  • Adelaide Almeida,
  • M. Amparo F. Faustino,
  • Maria G. P. M. S. Neves

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9060320
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 6
p. 320

Abstract

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Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT), using well known, safe and cost-effective photosensitizers, such as phenothiazines, e.g., methylene blue (MB), or porphyrins, e.g., protoporphyrin-IX (PP-IX), might help to mitigate the COVID-19 either to prevent infections or to develop photoactive fabrics (e.g., masks, suits, gloves) to disinfect surfaces, air and wastewater, under artificial light and/or natural sunlight.

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