Table 1.

APDT studies of planktonic microorganisms.

Microorganism	Photosensitizer	References
Staphylococcus aureus,   Escherichia coli,   Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and   Candida albicans	Cationic fullerenes	Huang et al., 2010 [60]
Penicillium chrysogenum  conidia	Cationic porphyrins	Gomes et al., 2011 [59]
S. aureus	Chlorin e6	Park et al., 2010 [61]
Listeria monocytogenes	MB	Lin et al., 2012 [54]
Candida spp.	MB	Queiroga et al., 2011 [55]
Staphylococcus spp.	MB	Miyabe et al., 2011 [56]
Streptococcus mutans	TBO, MB	Rolim et al., 2012 [57]
Bacillus atrophaeus,  Methicillin-resistant S. aureus Escherichia coli	TMPyP (5-, 10-, 15-, 20-tetrakis (1-methylpyridinium-4-yl)-porphyrin tetra p-toluenesulfonate)	Maisch et al., 2012 [58]