Antimicrobial Blue Light Inactivation of Polymicrobial Biofilms
This study was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (R01AI123312 to TD) and the United States Department of Defense (FA9550-16-1-0479 to TD).
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge William Fowle for his directions in preparing the SEM samples and Bin Zheng, Ph.D. for providing us the HaCaT cells.
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