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Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment approach which utilises light in combination with a light-activated antimicrobial agent to kill bacteria via a non-specific mechanism of action. In this study, we investigated whether the combination of 665\u00a0nm laser light and the light-activated antimicrobial agent methylene blue was able to successfully kill <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic> small colony variants. <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic> and isogenic stable small colony variant were exposed to varying doses (1.93 to 9.65\u00a0J\/cm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>) of 665\u00a0nm laser light in the presence of varying concentrations (1 to 20\u00a0\u03bcM) of methylene blue.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The combination of 665\u00a0nm laser light and methylene blue was found to be an effective strategy for the killing of small colony variants. At the highest light dose (9.65\u00a0J\/cm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>) and methylene blue concentration (20\u00a0\u03bcM) tested, the number of viable bacteria decreased by approximately 6.9 log<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub> for the wild type and approximately 5 log<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub> for the small colony variant.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>These results suggest that photodynamic therapy has potential for use in the treatment of superficial infections caused by small colony variants of <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic> and supports further research in this field.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2180-13-201","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,9,6]],"date-time":"2013-09-06T00:16:43Z","timestamp":1378426603000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants are susceptible to light activated antimicrobial agents"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Sarah","family":"Tubby","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Wilson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"John A","family":"Wright","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ping","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sean P","family":"Nair","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,9,6]]},"reference":[{"issue":"suppl 2","key":"2074_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"S26","DOI":"10.1016\/j.injury.2006.04.006","volume":"37","author":"C von Eiff","year":"2006","unstructured":"von Eiff C, Peters G, Becker K: The small colony variant (SCV) concept \u2013 the role of staphylococcal SCVs in persistent infections. 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