New Molecular Insights into Antimicrobial Photo-Treatments
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2024) | Viewed by 418
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for the identification of new and effective treatments against emerging health threats. The insurgence of new microbial infections, including the growing number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial species, calls for a renewed effort towards the development of antimicrobials that do not induce resistance in microorganisms. Antimicrobial photo-treatments, such as photodynamic inactivation (PDI), antimicrobial photo-thermal therapy (PTT) or blue/near UV light-induced inactivation, are regarded as a viable alternative to antibiotics in a large variety of cases.
We invite investigators who are active in the field to submit original research papers as well as review articles to this Special Issue, to highlight the realization and the use of molecular and nano-systems for antimicrobial photo-treaments, to provide new insights into the fundamental mechanisms of microbial photo-inactivation or to propose stimulating ideas and novel applications to expand the use of the methodology. Scientific contributions are expected to provide molecular-level information about the systems and/or the processes under study. The issue will focus on, but will not be limited to, the following aspects:
- Fundamental mechanisms of PDI, PTT or UV light-based antimicrobial treatments;
- New photo-activated materials, including molecules and nanomaterials;
- New formulations of existing photo-activated agents;
- Targeted photo-treatments against bacteria and viruses;
- Photo-treatments exploiting endogenous molecules;
- Visualization of functional photo-activated agents in situ with advanced microscopy;
- Combination treatments with, e.g., antibiotics or antibodies;
- Photo-activated molecular systems for industrial and large-scale applications.
Dr. Pietro Delcanale
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photodynamic inactivation
- photo-thermal therapy
- photosensitization
- antimicrobials
- reactive oxygen species
- photo-treatments
- antibiotic resistance
- singlet oxygen
- antivirals
