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Silver nanoparticles: A new view on mechanistic aspects on antimicrobial activity

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This overview incorporates a retrospective of previous reviews published from 2007 to 2013 and recent original contributions on the progress of research on antimicrobial mechanisms to summarize the current knowledge in the field of antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles.
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This article is published in Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine.The article was published on 2016-04-01. It has received 1055 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Silver nanoparticle.

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Tri-functional SERS nanoplatform with tunable plasmonic property for synergistic antibacterial activity and antibacterial process monitoring

TL;DR: In this paper , a tri-functional surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) nanoplatform was introduced for Ag+/photothermal therapy (PTT) synergistic antibacterial activity and antibacterial process monitoring.
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Interactions of Nanoenabled Agrochemicals with Soil Microbiome

TL;DR: Soil is a dynamic, physically, spatially, and temporally heterogeneous but well-organized, three-dimensional porous matrix mixing mineral and organic matter and living organisms as discussed by the authors.
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Interaction of antibacterial silver nanoparticles and microbiota-dependent holobionts revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the interactions between gut microbiota and zooplankton, Daphnia magna, under AgNP exposure through bioimaging, metatranscriptomic and gut microbiota translational techniques.
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De-novo fabrication of sunlight irradiated silver nanoparticles and their efficacy against E. coli and S. epidermidis

TL;DR: In this article , a de novo, robust, cost effective and an eco-friendly method is reported to fabricate AgNPs irradiated with sunlight (SL) while using Salvadora persica root extract (SPE) as reducing agent.
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Five nanometer size highly positive silver nanoparticles are bactericidal targeting cell wall and adherent fimbriae expression

TL;DR: In this paper , a small 5 nm size positively charged nanoparticles could specifically target bacterial cell wall and adherent fimbriae expression, serving as the next generation antibacterial agent.
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The bactericidal effect of silver nanoparticles

TL;DR: The results indicate that the bactericidal properties of the nanoparticles are size dependent, since the only nanoparticles that present a direct interaction with the bacteria preferentially have a diameter of approximately 1-10 nm.
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Silver nanoparticles as antimicrobial agent: a case study on E. coli as a model for Gram-negative bacteria

TL;DR: These nontoxic nanomaterials, which can be prepared in a simple and cost-effective manner, may be suitable for the formulation of new types of bactericidal materials.
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Antimicrobial effects of silver nanoparticles

TL;DR: The results suggest that Ag nanoparticles can be used as effective growth inhibitors in various microorganisms, making them applicable to diverse medical devices and antimicrobial control systems.
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Antiseptics and Disinfectants: Activity, Action, and Resistance

TL;DR: Known mechanisms of microbial resistance (both intrinsic and acquired) to biocides are reviewed, with emphasis on the clinical implications of these reports.
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Does the antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles depend on the shape of the nanoparticle? A study of the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli.

TL;DR: This is the first comparative study on the bactericidal properties of silver nanoparticles of different shapes, and the results demonstrate thatsilver nanoparticles undergo a shape-dependent interaction with the gram-negative organism E. coli.
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What is the Antimicrobial mechanism of action of silver nanoparticles?

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