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COVID-19: Beyond the virus. The use of photodynamic therapy for the treatment of infections in the respiratory tract

• The World today is facing a great effort for the control of infections. • Nowadays COVID-19 is the large global outbreak and is the major public health issue. • This letter to Editor highlighted the well-established photodynamic therapy protocol as a tool to decrease the viral and bacterial load i...

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Autores principales: Dias, Lucas D., Blanco, Kate C., Bagnato, Vanderlei S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7207135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32437972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101804
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spelling pubmed-72071352020-05-11 COVID-19: Beyond the virus. The use of photodynamic therapy for the treatment of infections in the respiratory tract Dias, Lucas D. Blanco, Kate C. Bagnato, Vanderlei S. Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther Letter to the Editor • The World today is facing a great effort for the control of infections. • Nowadays COVID-19 is the large global outbreak and is the major public health issue. • This letter to Editor highlighted the well-established photodynamic therapy protocol as a tool to decrease the viral and bacterial load in the respiratory tract. Elsevier B.V. 2020-09 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7207135/ /pubmed/32437972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101804 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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COVID-19: Beyond the virus. The use of photodynamic therapy for the treatment of infections in the respiratory tract
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