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Theranostics 2020; 10(26):12241-12262. doi:10.7150/thno.52729 This issue Cite

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Phototherapy-based combination strategies for bacterial infection treatment

Guoqing Wei1, Guang Yang2, Yi Wang3, Hezhong Jiang3, Yiyong Fu1, Guang Yue1, Rong Ju1✉

1. Chengdu Women's and Children's Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, PR China.
2. College of Medicine, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, PR China.
3. School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, PR China.

✉ Corresponding author: Dr Rong Ju, Chengdu Women's and Children's Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 1617 Riyue Avenue, Qingyang District, Chengdu 611731, PR China. E-mail: jurongedu More

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Wei G, Yang G, Wang Y, Jiang H, Fu Y, Yue G, Ju R. Phototherapy-based combination strategies for bacterial infection treatment. Theranostics 2020; 10(26):12241-12262. doi:10.7150/thno.52729. https://www.thno.org/v10p12241.htm
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The development of nanomedicine is expected to provide an innovative direction for addressing challenges associated with multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. In the past decades, although nanotechnology-based phototherapy has been developed for antimicrobial treatment since it rarely causes bacterial resistance, the clinical application of single-mode phototherapy has been limited due to poor tissue penetration of light sources. Therefore, combinatorial strategies are being developed. In this review, we first summarized the current phototherapy agents, which were classified into two functional categories: organic phototherapy agents (e.g., small molecule photosensitizers, small molecule photosensitizer-loaded nanoparticles and polymer-based photosensitizers) and inorganic phototherapy agents (e.g., carbo-based nanomaterials, metal-based nanomaterials, composite nanomaterials and quantum dots). Then the development of emerging phototherapy-based combinatorial strategies, including combination with chemotherapy, combination with chemodynamic therapy, combination with gas therapy, and multiple combination therapy, are presented and future directions are further discussed. The purpose of this review is to highlight the potential of phototherapy to deal with bacterial infections and to propose that the combination therapy strategy is an effective way to solve the challenges of single-mode phototherapy.

Keywords: Bacterial infection, Multidrug-resistance, Phototherapy, Combinatorial strategies, Nanomedicine

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Wei, G., Yang, G., Wang, Y., Jiang, H., Fu, Y., Yue, G., Ju, R. (2020). Phototherapy-based combination strategies for bacterial infection treatment. Theranostics, 10(26), 12241-12262. https://doi.org/10.7150/thno.52729.

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Wei, G.; Yang, G.; Wang, Y.; Jiang, H.; Fu, Y.; Yue, G.; Ju, R. Phototherapy-based combination strategies for bacterial infection treatment. Theranostics 2020, 10 (26), 12241-12262. DOI: 10.7150/thno.52729.

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Wei G, Yang G, Wang Y, Jiang H, Fu Y, Yue G, Ju R. Phototherapy-based combination strategies for bacterial infection treatment. Theranostics 2020; 10(26):12241-12262. doi:10.7150/thno.52729. https://www.thno.org/v10p12241.htm

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Wei G, Yang G, Wang Y, Jiang H, Fu Y, Yue G, Ju R. 2020. Phototherapy-based combination strategies for bacterial infection treatment. Theranostics. 10(26):12241-12262.

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