Silver nanoparticles: the powerful nanoweapon against multidrug‐resistant bacteria

MK Rai, SD Deshmukh, AP Ingle… - Journal of applied …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In the present scenario, pharmaceutical and biomedical sectors are facing the challenges of
continuous increase in the multidrug‐resistant (MDR) human pathogenic microbes. Re …

Silver nanoparticles as a new generation of antimicrobials

M Rai, A Yadav, A Gade - Biotechnology advances, 2009 - Elsevier
Silver has been in use since time immemorial in the form of metallic silver, silver nitrate,
silver sulfadiazine for the treatment of burns, wounds and several bacterial infections. But …

[PDF][PDF] Silver in drinking water: Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality

World Health Organization - 2021 - apps.who.int
Access to safe drinking-water is essential to health, a basic human right and a component of
effective policy for health protection. A major World Health Organization (WHO) function to …

Biocides and novel antimicrobial agents for the mitigation of coronaviruses

G Dev Kumar, A Mishra, L Dunn, A Townsend… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In December, 2019, a highly infectious and rapidly spreading new pneumonia of unknown
cause was reported to the Chinese WHO Country Office. A cluster of these cases had …

The pros and cons of the use of laser ablation synthesis for the production of silver nano-antimicrobials

MC Sportelli, M Izzi, A Volpe, M Clemente, RA Picca… - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are well-known for their antimicrobial effects and several
groups are proposing them as active agents to fight antimicrobial resistance. A wide variety …

Virus inactivation by silver doped titanium dioxide nanoparticles for drinking water treatment

MV Liga, EL Bryant, VL Colvin, Q Li - Water research, 2011 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic inactivation of viruses and other microorganisms is a promising technology
that has been increasingly utilized in recent years. In this study, photocatalytic silver doped …

[PDF][PDF] Fluence (UV dose) required to achieve incremental log inactivation of bacteria, protozoa, viruses and algae

AH Malayeri, M Mohseni, B Cairns, JR Bolton… - IUVA News, 2016 - iuva.org
This paper represents the second revision of a compilation that goes back to 1999. The
original compilation (Wright and Sakamoto 1999) was an internal document of Trojan …

Antileishmanial effect of silver nanoparticles and their enhanced antiparasitic activity under ultraviolet light

AM Allahverdiyev, ES Abamor, M Bagirova… - International journal …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Leishmaniasis is a protozoan vector-borne disease and is one of the biggest health
problems of the world. Antileishmanial drugs have disadvantages such as toxicity and the …

Silver as a disinfectant

N Silvestry-Rodriguez, EE Sicairos-Ruelas… - Reviews of …, 2007 - Springer
The antimicrobial effects of silver (Ag) have been recognized for thousands of years. In
ancient times, it was used in water containers (Grier 1983) and to prevent putrefaction of …

Control measures for SARS-CoV-2: a review on light-based inactivation of single-stranded RNA viruses

J Hadi, M Dunowska, S Wu, G Brightwell - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 is a single-stranded RNA virus classified in the family Coronaviridae. In this
review, we summarize the literature on light-based (UV, blue, and red lights) sanitization …