Zinc Sorption to Three Gram-Negative Bacteria: Combined Titration, Modeling, and EXAFS Study

Photoinactivation of bacteria. Use of a cationic water-soluble zinc phthalocyanine to photoinactivate both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria.

The photosensitization of microorganisms is potentially useful for sterilization and for the treatment of certain bacterial diseases. Until now, any broad spectrum approach has been inhibited because, although Gram-positive bacteria can be photoinactivated by a range of photosensitizers, Gram-negative bacteria have not usually been susceptible to photosensitized destruction. In the present work...

Cell Envelope Structure and Functions in Gram-negative Bacteria

Effect of antibacterial steroid alkaloids from three Lorestan medicinal plants on gram-negative/positive bacteria

Background: Alkaloids are a group of nitrogen- containing natural compounds derived from a variety of sources including bacteria, fungi, marine organisms and plants. Materials and methods: Fruits, stem or leaves were collected from the Zagros highlands around Azna or Khoramabad city, dried and powdered before being extracted in a soxhalet apparatus. The extract was filtered and concentrated u...

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Antibacterial PDDA/Honey Nanofiber Against Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria

Nanomaterials are increasingly used to the targeting of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria as an alternative to antibiotics. Bacterial infections are a major cause of chronic infections and mortality. People requirement for new materials for pathogenic bacteria treatment. It seems that nanomaterial-based strategies can be resolving this problem. In this research, improved antibacterial na...

Investigating the Antimicrobial Efficacy of Liposomal Vancomycin in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria- A Preliminary Mechanistic Study

Outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is a permeability barrier to many antibacterial agents, including the glycopeptide antibiotics such as vancomycin hydrochloride and as a result these antibiotics are ineffective against Gram negative bacteria. Different strategies have been described to overcome such limitation, including application of nanoparticles, as was shown in our previous studies...