About the Authors
- Manuela Buonanno
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Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- Milda Stanislauskas
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Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- Brian Ponnaiya
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Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- Alan W. Bigelow
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Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- Gerhard Randers-Pehrson
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Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- Yanping Xu
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Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- Igor Shuryak
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Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- Lubomir Smilenov
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Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- David M. Owens
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Affiliations Department of Dermatology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- David J. Brenner
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* E-mail: djb3@cumc.columbia.edu
Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
Competing Interests
GR-P receives royalty payments from Ushio Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) pursuant to exclusive license and research agreements with Columbia University. There is a US patent application titled “Apparatus, method, and system for selectively effecting and/or killing bacteria” number 20150073396 relating to the excilamp UV technology pertinent to this article. The authors wish to confirm that this Competing Interest does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GR-P DMO DJB. Performed the experiments: MB MS BP AWB LS YX. Analyzed the data: MB AWB GR-P IS DJB YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS DMO DJB. Wrote the paper: MB AWB GR-P DJB.