Microbial Composition of Oral Biofilms after Visible Light and Water-Filtered Infrared a Radiation (VIS+wIRA) in Combination with Indocyanine Green (ICG) as Photosensitizer
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Photosensitizer and Light Source
2.2. Sample Preparation and Biofilm Formation
2.3. Treatment and Cultivation of Biofilm Samples
2.4. Differentiation of the Microbial Composition
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Reduction in Bacterial Diversity within the Initial Biofilm after Treatment with VIS+wIRA in Combination with ICG as Photosensitizer
3.2. Change in the Microbial Composition of Mature Oral Biofilm after Performing aPDT with ICG
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Burchard, T.; Karygianni, L.; Hellwig, E.; Wittmer, A.; Al-Ahmad, A. Microbial Composition of Oral Biofilms after Visible Light and Water-Filtered Infrared a Radiation (VIS+wIRA) in Combination with Indocyanine Green (ICG) as Photosensitizer. Antibiotics 2020, 9, 532. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/antibiotics9090532
Burchard T, Karygianni L, Hellwig E, Wittmer A, Al-Ahmad A. Microbial Composition of Oral Biofilms after Visible Light and Water-Filtered Infrared a Radiation (VIS+wIRA) in Combination with Indocyanine Green (ICG) as Photosensitizer. Antibiotics. 2020; 9(9):532. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/antibiotics9090532
Chicago/Turabian StyleBurchard, Thomas, Lamprini Karygianni, Elmar Hellwig, Annette Wittmer, and Ali Al-Ahmad. 2020. "Microbial Composition of Oral Biofilms after Visible Light and Water-Filtered Infrared a Radiation (VIS+wIRA) in Combination with Indocyanine Green (ICG) as Photosensitizer" Antibiotics 9, no. 9: 532. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/antibiotics9090532