Table 3.
Antibacterial photodynamic therapy in combination with photothermal hyperthermia therapy.
| Photosensitizer and Nanoconjugate System Used | Photothermal Therapy Agent Used | Gram Negative |
Gram Positive |
Study Phase | Impact/Target | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toluidine blue and withindocyanine green | indocyanine green | S. mutans | in vitro | biofilm + planktonic/enhanced efficacy | [73] | |
| indocyanine green loaded SPIONs |
superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles |
E. coli, K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa, |
S. epidermis | in vitro | biofilm + planktonic/synergistic | [26] |
| indocyanine green loaded mesoporous nanoparticles | mesoporous polydopamine nanoparticles |
E. coli, K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa |
S. aureus | in vitro | biofilm + planktonic/synergistic | [114] |
| toluidine blue coated gold nanorods | gold nanorods | MRSA | in vitro | biofilm + planktonic/synergistic | [117] | |
| black phosphorus nanosheets conjugated gold nanoparticles BP@AuNP | BP@AuNP | E. coli | S. aureus | in vitro in vivo |
biofilm + planktonic/synergistic | [118] |