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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2019
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Daniela Vecchio, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael R. Hamblin, Boston, MA (US);
Yingying Huang, Boston, MA (US);
Liyi Huang, Boston, MA (US);
Giacomo Landi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey A. Gelfand, Boston, MA (US);
Timothy Brauns, Boston, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A problem of incomplete inhibition of harmful cells/bacteria and short duration of time, after the photodynamic treatment, during which such cells may re-grow, is solved by exposing the target bacteria with a multi-component photosensitizer material formed by adding a predetermined potentiating chemical to a conventional single-component photosensitizer at the target, prior to irradiating the target with light. The multi-component photosensitizer is effectuated by forming a mix of the two chemical compositions or by sequential exposure of the bacteria to a single-component photosensitizer and the potentiating chemical of choice.