Hybrid silver–gold nanoparticles suppress drug resistant polymicrobial biofilm formation and intracellular infection

E Bhatia, R Banerjee - Journal of materials chemistry B, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Over decades bacteria have evolved multiple mechanisms to fight antibiotics. Biofilm
formation by bacteria is one such mechanism as it forms a barrier and creates an acidic …

Potent antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of bacteriogenically synthesized gold–silver nanoparticles against pathogenic bacteria and their physiochemical …

M Ramasamy, JH Lee, J Lee - Journal of biomaterials …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The objective of this study was to develop a bimetallic nanoparticle with enhanced
antibacterial activity that would improve the therapeutic efficacy against bacterial biofilms …

Caffeine-loaded gold nanoparticles: Antibiofilm and anti-persister activities against pathogenic bacteria

F Khan, SK Park, NI Bamunuarachchi, DK Oh… - Applied microbiology …, 2021 - Springer
The formation of biofilms by bacterial pathogens and the presence of persister cells in
biofilms have become major concerns in the health sector, owing to their antibiotic …

Polysaccharide-capped silver Nanoparticles inhibit biofilm formation and eliminate multi-drug-resistant bacteria by disrupting bacterial cytoskeleton with reduced …

S Sanyasi, RK Majhi, S Kumar, M Mishra, A Ghosh… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Development of effective anti-microbial therapeutics has been hindered by the
emergence of bacterial strains with multi-drug resistance and biofilm formation capabilities …

Functional silver nanocomposites as broad-spectrum antimicrobial and biofilm-disrupting agents

Q Guo, Y Zhao, X Dai, T Zhang, Y Yu… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Biofilms' tolerance has become a serious clinical concern due to their formidable resistance
to conventional antibiotics and prevalent virulence. Therefore, there is an urgent need to …

Small molecule-decorated gold nanoparticles for preparing antibiofilm fabrics

L Wang, M Natan, W Zheng, W Zheng, S Liu… - Nanoscale …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The increase in antibiotic resistance reported worldwide poses an immediate threat to
human health and highlights the need to find novel approaches to inhibit bacterial growth. In …

Ag NCs as a potent antibiofilm agent against pathogenic Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii and drug-resistant Bacillus subtilis by affecting …

A Singh, K Rani, V Tandon, AK Sahoo… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Biofilm infections are highly resistant to commercial antibiotics. Therefore, developing a
potent agent against such drug-resistant bacterial infections is highly desirable. Here, we …

Characterization, antibacterial, and cytotoxic activities of silver nanoparticles using the whole biofilm layer as a macromolecule in biosynthesis

AY Yakoup, AG Kamel, Y Elbermawy… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Recently, multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria are responsible for a large number of
infectious diseases that can be life-threatening. Globally, new approaches are targeted to …

Green synthesis, characterization, antibacterial and biofilm inhibitory activity of silver nanoparticles compared to commercial silver nanoparticles

H Barabadi, F Mojab, H Vahidi, B Marashi… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study was aimed to fabricate Zataria multiflora-derived silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)
and evaluate the antibacterial activity and biofilm inhibitory activity of plant-mediated …

Tryptone-stabilized silver nanoparticles' potential to mitigate planktonic and biofilm growth forms of Serratia marcescens

P Pandey, K Meher, B Falcao, M Lopus… - JBIC Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Several microbial pathogens are capable of forming biofilms. These microbial communities
pose a serious challenge to the healthcare sector as they are quite difficult to combat. Given …