title: Efficacy of Biophotonics as a Therapeutic Adjunct in Resolving Microbial and Viral Infectious Illnesses
abstract: Discovery and development of effective strategies to treat emerging and often drug resistant strains of viral and microbial pathogens presents one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Despite nearly a century of progress in developments in antimicrobial and antiviral therapies, infectious diseases still account for a substantial proportion of deaths worldwide, including over 100 million globally in the recent pandemic to date. In recent decades, the plague of antimicrobial resistance 
journal: Preprints.org