A system and method that include using biophotonic and/or phononic systems for deactivating viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens that may be present on people, their clothing, or other surfaces. Biophotonic refers to the use of photons in specific wavelengths of the FAR-Ultraviolet C radiation and/or FAR-Infrared C radiation to affect the interior structure and chemistry of bacteria and viruses to degrade them and render them harmless. The infrared radiation may also provide a phononic effect that degrades the physical conditions of the cell or virus sufficiently to disrupt the cellular machinery, deactivating the virus. Furthermore, a higher temperature Inside the UVIR system makes negligible the rate of propagation of the Virus. The system of the present invention is operable to use electromagnetic radiation to disinfect the exterior surfaces of living mammal animals without harming the animal's tissue, but still effective to degrade microbe and sanitize the exterior surfaces.

The present invention relates to methods and devices for diminishing microbes. The invention provides methods and devices to sanitize, disinfect and sterilize areas, spaces, surfaces and items as well as to sanitize human skin. The methods and devices will be of major importance to the healthcare industry and to other industries or physical environments that require sanitizing, disinfecting or sterilizing. The methods comprise the use of near infrared light (NIR), UV, violet and blue emitting LED elements as well as OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) as a stand-alone technology. Optionally the system may be used in combination with ozone and ionized silver.

A skin microbiota modulation device that includes a cold plasma assembly configured to generate a cold plasma stimulus including a partially ionized gas mixture and to interrogate a biological surface with the cold plasma stimulus; and a microbiota seeding assembly including one or more target species of micobiota, the microbiota seeding assembly configured to deliver the one or more target species of micobiota to the biological surface.

Methods and apparatus provide therapeutic electromagnetic radiation (EMR) for inactivating infectious agents in, on or around a catheter residing in a patient's body cavity and/or for enhancing healthy cell growth. Transmitting non-ultraviolet therapeutic EMR substantially axially along an optical element in a lumen of the catheter body and/or the catheter body. Through delivery of the therapeutic EMR to particular infected areas and/or areas requiring tissue healing. The inactivation of the major sources of infection in, on, and around catheters and/or enhance healthy cell growth around catheters is accomplished by utilizing controlled relative intensity and/or treatment region specific dosing of the therapeutic EMR emitted radially from the optical element. Specific embodiments of urinary catheters and peritoneal dialysis catheters are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for assessing the effectiveness of a decontamination event to decontaminate a portion of at least one of skin or a covering of the skin of an individual. A dispensing apparatus is attachable to a water dispenser via a water dispenser interface. The dispensing apparatus to house an agent dispensing system and a light source. The light source to emit light in accordance with a predetermined field of view, and to emit the light at a sufficient intensity and wavelength to cause a fluorescent agent dispensed by the agent dispensing system to fluoresce. The field of view defines an inspection space in which the portion of the individual can be positioned to detect at least one of a presence or an absence of the fluorescent agent during the decontamination event.

Disclosed in certain embodiments is a method of treating a pathogenic infection comprising (i) contacting a pathogen residing in the oral cavity and/or pharynx of a patient in need thereof with a photosensitizer and (ii) subjecting the photosensitizer contacted pathogen to a light source.

A solution for controlling mildew in a cultivated area is described. The solution can include a set of ultraviolet sources that are configured to emit ultraviolet and/or blue-ultraviolet radiation to harm mildew present on a plant or ground surface. A set of sensors can be utilized to acquire plant data for at least one plant surface of a plant, which can be processed to determine a presence of mildew on the at least one plant surface. Additional features can be included to further affect the growth environment for the plant. A feedback process can be implemented to improve one or more aspects of the growth environment.

A blood processing apparatus including a blood supply unit, a centrifuge, a light irradiation unit, a filtering device, and a blood collection unit, which is characterized in that blood is introduced into the centrifuge and centrifuged, the centrifuged blood is passed through a transparent tube provided in the light irradiation unit while being irradiated with light applied, from the outside of the transparent tube, by a light irradiation device configured to include an infrared lamp with a wavelength of 830±5 nm, a red light-emitting diode (LED) lamp with a wavelength of 635±6 nm, a blue LED lamp with a wavelength of 420±5 nm, a green LED lamp with a wavelength of 530±5 nm, a yellow LED lamp with a wavelength of 585±5 nm, and ultraviolet (UV) lamps, and the blood irradiated with the light is filtered using the filtering device and collected in the blood collection unit.

The invention relates to a recipient (1) for ex-vivo treatment of biological liquids, which includes: a rigid body (2); a reservoir (3) provided inside the body (2), which is formed by a side wall (4), a rigid upper wall (5) and a rigid lower wall (6) and has an internal thickness defined by the separation between the upper wall (5) and the lower wall (6), at least one of the upper wall (5) or the lower wall (6) having a window area (7) configured to allow the passage of electromagnetic radiation from outside of the body (2) to the reservoir (3); two ports (8, 9) for liquids to gain access to the reservoir (3) from outside of the body (2); and closure means (10, 11) for the ports (8, 9), the closure means (10, 11) being configured to provide, jointly, the reservoir (3) with hermetic sealing against gases and liquids.

A solution for controlling mildew in a cultivated area is described. The solution can include a set of ultraviolet sources that are configured to emit ultraviolet and/or blue-ultraviolet radiation to harm mildew present on a plant or ground surface. A set of sensors can be utilized to acquire plant data for at least one plant surface of a plant, which can be processed to determine a presence of mildew on the at least one plant surface. Additional features can be included to further affect the growth environment for the plant. A feedback process can be implemented to improve one or more aspects of the growth environment.