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Research Article

Photodynamic Therapy with A Cationic Functionalized Fullerene Rescues Mice From Fatal Wound Infections

Zongshun Lu1 Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom Street, Boston, MA02114, USA;2 Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, ChinaView further author information
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Tianhong Dai1 Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom Street, Boston, MA02114, USA;3 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USAView further author information
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Liyi Huang1 Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom Street, Boston, MA02114, USA;3 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;4 First Affiliated College & Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, ChinaView further author information
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Divya B Kurup1 Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom Street, Boston, MA02114, USAView further author information
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George P Tegos1 Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom Street, Boston, MA02114, USA;3 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;5 University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USAView further author information
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Ashlee Jahnke6 Lynntech Inc., College Station, TX, USA;7 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CanadaView further author information
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Tim Wharton6 Lynntech Inc., College Station, TX, USA;8 Texas Biochemicals, College Station, TX, USAView further author information
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Michael R Hamblin1 Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom Street, Boston, MA02114, USA;3 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;9 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Correspondence[email protected]
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Pages 1525-1533 | Published online: 14 Dec 2010

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