An unacceptable increase in antibacterial resistance has arisen due to the abuse of multiple classes broad-spectrum antibiotics. Therefore, it is significant develop new agents, especially those that can accurately identify and kill specific bacteria. Herein, we demonstrate a kind perilla-derived carbon nanodots (CNDs), integrating intrinsic advantages luminescence photodynamic, providing oppor...

Although reports of the photodynamic inactivation of viruses appeared in 1928, long before chemotherapeutic antiviral drugs, the first clinical trial in humans-the topical treatment of herpes genitalis-did not take place until the early 1970s. Trials were discontinued due to the transformation of healthy cells and concomitant incidence of Bowen's disease in some patients, probably due to the mi...

The development of new virus inactivation procedures has become an area of growing interest mainly due to increased demands concerning the safety of biological products. Photochemical processes represent the most promising methods for the future to inactivate viruses. In these methods, dyes are the most widely used photosensitising reagents. The current article covers a new interesting alternat...

Antibiotics have increasingly lost their impact to kill bacteria efficiently during the last 10 years. The emergence and dissemination of superbugs with resistance to multiple antibiotic classes have occurred among Gram-positive and Gram-negative strains including Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacter...