[Sonosensitizing Action of Teraphtal in Bacterial Media]

Abstract

Employing bacterial model systems it was shown that the introduction of the soluble compound--sodium salt of cobalt octacarboxyphthalocyanine (teraphtal)--into the medium led in an ultrasonic field to a decrease in the proportion of survived bacteria. It is suggested that in the bacterial environment teraphtal forms a solid phase, which in the ultrasonic field causes destruction of the structures adjacent to the nanocrystals due to localized cavitation processes.