Antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles: Sensitivity of different Salmonella serovars

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Losasso, Carmen ^a   Belluco, Simone ^a   Cibin, Veronica ^a   Zavagnin, Paola ^a   Mičetić, Ivan ^b   Gallocchio, Federica ^a   Zanella, Michela ^b   Bregoli, Lisa ^b   Biancotto, Giancarlo ^a   Ricci, Antonia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^b European Center for the Sustainable Impact of Nanotechnology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimicrobials; Nanoparticles; Salmonella; Silver; Silver resistance

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SILVER NITRATE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; DRUG PURITY; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH INHIBITION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA HADAR; SALMONELLA SENFTENBERG; SALMONELLOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84904889406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00227     Document Type: Article

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