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  • Silver Nanoparticles Synthe...
    Monowar, Tahmina; Rahman, Md Sayedur; Bhore, Subhash J; Raju, Gunasunderi; Sathasivam, Kathiresan V

    Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 12/2018, Letnik: 23, Številka: 12
    Journal Article

    Antibiotic resistance is one of the most important global problems currently confronting the world. Different biomedical applications of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have indicated them to be promising antimicrobial agents. In the present study, extracellular extract of an endophytic bacterium, was used for synthesis of AgNPs. The synthesized AgNPs were characterized by UV⁻Vis spectroscopy, FTIR, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), and Zeta potential. The antimicrobial potential of the AgNPs against pathogenic subsp. (ATCC 11632), (ATCC 10876), (ATCC 10536), (ATCC 10145) and (ATCC 10231), and multidrug resistant (MDR) (ATCC 700677), (ATCC 700221) (ATCC 33592) (NCTC 13351) was investigated. The synthesized spherical-shaped AgNPs with a size range of 8.06 nm to 91.32 nm exhibited significant antimicrobial activity at 6 μg/disc concentration against (ATCC 10876) and (ATCC 10231) which were found to be resistant to conventional antibiotics. The synthesized AgNPs showed promising antibacterial efficiency at 10 µg/disc concentration against the MDR strains. The present study suggests that AgNPs synthesized by using the endophytic bacterium are promising antimicrobial agent.