in  this  reaserch,  photocatalyst  titanium  dioxide  was  doped  with silver  and modified  by  polyethylene  glycol  by  sol  gel method  and the  samples  were  characterized  by  x-ray  diffraction  (xrd)  and scanning  electron  microscopy  (sem).  the  purpose  of  the  present study  was  to  evaluate  the  photocatalytic  bactericidal  effects  of prepared nanocomposite on human pathog...

Peptostreptococcus anaerobius VPI 4330-1 was tested under various conditions for examination of the bactericidal effect of hydrogen peroxide. The cells were most rapidly killed by hydrogen peroxide when they were in the exponential-growth phase. Cooling or starving the cells decreased the bactericidal effect of hydrogen peroxide. The ionophore nigericin and the metal ion chelating agent 2,2'-bi...

Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan Department of Pathology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan Central Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan Professor emeritus, Nagasaki Uni...

Bacteriostatic and bactericidal antibiotic treatments result in two fundamentally different phenotypic outcomes--the inhibition of bacterial growth or, alternatively, cell death. Most antibiotics inhibit processes that are major consumers of cellular energy output, suggesting that antibiotic treatment may have important downstream consequences on bacterial metabolism. We hypothesized that the s...

In the present study, the bactericidal effect of photo-irradiated proanthocyanidin was evaluated in relation to reactive oxygen species formation. Staphylococcus aureus suspended in proanthocyanidin aqueous solution was irradiated with light from a laser at 405 nm. The bactericidal effect of photo-irradiated proanthocyanidin depended on the concentration of proanthocyanidin, the laser irradiati...

The bactericidal effect of visible light illumination on bacteria treated with non-toxic photosensitizers (PS) has been shown previously, its effectiveness depended on both cell type and nature of photosensitizer used. The photosensitizer (PS)-mediated bactericidal effect of light against different types of microorganisms including vegetative bacteria (both in planktonic form and in biofilms), ...

Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MDRP) infection has become a serious clinical problem in the currently. We reported the bactericidal activity in the filtrated supernatant of Streptococcus (S.) sanguinis against P. aeruginosa. The S. sanguinis, isolated from the sputum of a pulmonary-disease patient, was cultured for overnight, and filtered supernatant was tested for bactericidal eff...

Of five parenteral cephalosporins tested against 43 lactobacilli, cephaloridine, cefazolin, and cefamandole were the most active inhibitory and bactericidal agents. Timed-kill analysis revealed a slow bactericidal effect, with significant declines in mean minimal bactericidal concentration values at 48 h versus 24 h.