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Studies find paint, green dye can kill MRSA
Quality Improvement Monitor, September 12, 2008
New studies have found that a type of paint exposed to fluorescent light and a green dye that gives off toxic molecules when activated by near-infrared light can both kill Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), according to HealthDay News.
Researchers presented the two new studies at a meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin, Ireland.
In one study, paint containing particles of titanium dioxide killed bacteria when it absorbed ultraviolet light, British researcher Lucia Caballero said.
A second study found that green dye that gives off toxic molecules when activated by infrared light could kill 99% of MRSA in infected wounds, HealthDay reported.
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