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Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther ; 13: 276-281, 2016 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26315923

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BACKGROUND: Bovine mastitis is considered the most important disease of worldwide dairy industry. Treatment of this disease is based on the application intramammary antibiotic, which favors an increase in the number of resistant bacteria in the last decade. Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) has been investigated in different areas of Health Sciences, and has shown great potential for inactivating different pathogens, without any selection of resistant microorganisms. The objective of this study was to investigate the efficacy of PDI in the inactivation of pathogens associated with bovine mastitis. METHODS: We tested the effectiveness of PDI against antibiotic resistant strains, isolated from bovine mastitis, from the following species: Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus dysgalactiae, Corynebacterium bovis, and the alga Prototheca zopfii. Nine experimental groups were evaluated: control, no treatment; light only, irradiation of a red light-emitting diode (λ=662 (20) nm) for 180 s; exposure to 50 µM methylene blue alone for 5 min; and PDI for 5, 10, 30, 60, 120 and 180 s. RESULTS: S. dysgalactiae, S. aureus, and C. bovis were inactivated after 30s of irradiation, whereas S. agalactiae was inactivated after 120 s and P. zopfii at 180 s of irradiation. CONCLUSION: These results show that PDI can be an interesting tool for inactivating pathogens for bovine mastitis.


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Bacterial Physiological Phenomena/drug effects , Mastitis, Bovine/drug therapy , Mastitis, Bovine/microbiology , Photochemotherapy/methods , Prototheca/drug effects , Prototheca/physiology , Animals , Bacterial Physiological Phenomena/radiation effects , Cattle , Cell Survival/drug effects , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation , Mastitis, Bovine/pathology , Milk/microbiology , Photosensitizing Agents/administration & dosage , Prototheca/radiation effects , Sterilization/methods
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