2021, Advanced Healthcare Materials Metal-based nanoparticles as antimicrobial agents: An overview 2020, Nanomaterials Nano-selenium and its nanomedicine applications: A critical review 2018, International Journal of Nanomedicine View all citing articles on ScopusView full text ...
Recently, the confluence of nanotechnology and biology has brought to fore metals in the form of nanoparticles as potential antimicrobial agents. Nanoparticles have unique and well defined physical and chemical properties which can be manipulated suitably for desired applications. Moreover, their potent ...
Some antimicrobial agents are extremely irritant and toxic. The studies on drug resistant bacteria in this facet are still limited. Also AgNPs have gained insight as an excellent antimicrobial agent due to its non-toxic effect on human cells in its low concentration and weaker ability to develop ...
The potential of antimicrobial nanoparticles to control oral infections is reviewed. Such particles can be classified as having a size no greater than 100nm and are produced using traditional or more novel techniques. Exploitation of the toxic properties of nanoparticles to bacteria, fungi and viruses...
Various clinical manifestations like oral and ear infections, diabetic wound infections, pulmonary and urinary tract infections as well as medical implant associated infections are largely caused by biofilms formed by multi-species microbial communities that exhibit high resistance to antimicrobial agents ...
ZnO NPs have emerged as the potential antimicrobial agents. This is mainly due to their superior properties in combating a broad spectrum of pathogens. Moreover, zinc is known as an essential trace element for most of the biological function in the animal’s body. As such, the applications of...
coli) bacteria were selected for this experiment as representative bacteria for each type of bacterial classification in order to determine the efficacy of iron oxide nanoparticles prepared using Clove or g-Coffee extract as antimicrobial agents. The Cairo Microbiology Research Center provided the ATCC ...
Essential oils (EO) are an interesting resource for alternative medical therapy, providing antimicrobial compounds that come from organic/natural resources like aromatic plants. Also, a biological polymer, such as chitosan, could be used to control the release of active agents from mesop...
Antibacterial agents are very important in the textile industry, water disinfection, medicine, and food packaging. Organic compounds used for disinfection have some disadvantages, including toxicity to the human body, therefore, the interest in inorganic disinfectants such as metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs...
Due to bacterial resistance to antibiotics there is a need for new antimicrobial agents. In this respect nanoparticles can be used as they have expressed antibacterial activity simultaneously being more reactive compared to their bulk material. The action of zinc (II), titanium (IV), copper (II)...