New device and technology for antimicrobial phototherapy

Abstract

One of the most difficult issues in modern medicine is the combat against infectious diseases. At the same time the problem of the increasing resistance of the infected microorganisms against the most up-to-date antibacterial preparations (the chemotherapy problem), is becoming more pressing [1]. From what is known, mercuric lamps have a very strong sterilization action, the character of their radiation not being coherent. Important is, firstly, the wavelength of the photon (i.e. energy), intensity and duration of irradiation.