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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-5-23
pubmed:abstractText
Helicobacter pylori is associated with various gastrointestinal disorders. Lethal photosensitisation was investigated as a possible technique for killing H. pylori which might offer a better alternative to antibiotics. The susceptibility of H. pylori to lethal photosensitisation was determined by mixing suspensions of H. pylori with various photosensitisers and plating out on blood agar before irradiation with low-power laser light. Five sensitisers were studied further by mixing them with H. pylori in a tissue-culture plate and counting survivors after irradiation as a function of laser exposure time, dye concentration and pre-irradiation time. Crystal violet and thionine were ineffective as sensitisers, but zones of inhibition appeared with methylene blue (MB), protoporphyrin IX (PPIX), haematoporphyrin derivative (HPD), toluidine blue O (TBO) and disulphonated aluminium phthalocyanine (S2). Laser light or sensitiser alone did not affect bacterial viability. S2 (100 microg/ml) with a laser light energy density of 16 J/cm2, HPD (10O microg/ml) with 160 J/cm2, MB (100 microg/ml) with 21 J/cm2, PPIX (150 microg/ml) with 320 J/cm2 and TBO (50 microg/ml) with 160 J/cm2 all reduced bacterial viability by >99%. The killing of sensitised H. pylori by laser light offers a new approach to the treatment of localised infections when all colonised areas are accessible to light.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Coloring Agents, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Gentian Violet, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hematoporphyrin Derivative, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Indoles, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Methylene Blue, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Organometallic Compounds, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Phenothiazines, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Photosensitizing Agents, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protoporphyrins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tolonium Chloride, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/aluminum phthalocyanine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/protoporphyrin IX, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/thionine
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-2615
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
44
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
245-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
The killing of Helicobacter pylori by low-power laser light in the presence of a photosensitiser.
pubmed:affiliation
The National Medical Laser Centre, University College London Medical School, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't