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ArticlePhotomedicine and laser surgery2017

Visible Blue Light is Capable of Inactivating Candida albicans and Other Fungal Species.

Tianhong Dai, Michael R Hamblin

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Article in Photomedicine and laser surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Sensitivity of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca Salento-1 to light at 410 nm.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2024
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  4. Photoinactivation by UVA radiation and visible light of Candida auris compared to other fungi.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2024
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  9. Spectrum of virucidal activity from ultraviolet to infrared radiation.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2020
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  13. 405 nm and 450 nm Photoinactivation ofEuropean journal of microbiology & immunology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tianhong DaiWellman Center for Photomedicine , Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Michael R HamblinWellman Center for Photomedicine , Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

Photodynamic Therapy of Localized InfectionsR01AI050875 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HAMBLIN, MICHAEL R · 2003 to 2017
$4.8M
Synergistic Photodynamic Therapy for Catherer-Associated Urinary Tract InfectionsR21AI121700 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HAMBLIN, MICHAEL R · 2016 to 2017
$462k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050875NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI121700
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

LightCandida albicansCandidiasisFungiHumansPhototherapySampling StudiesSensitivity and Specificity

Identifiers

PMID28613980
PMCPMC5512304

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