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Nano-Antimicrobials || Nano-Silver Toxicity: Emerging Concerns and Consequences in Human Health

✍ Scribed by Cioffi, Nicola; Rai, Mahendra


Book ID
120257051
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2011
Tongue
German
Weight
483 KB
Edition
2012
Category
Article
ISBN
3642244289

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✦ Synopsis


There is a high demand for  antimicrobials for the treatment of new and emerging microbial diseases. In particular, microbes developing multidrug resistance have created a pressing need to search for a new generation of antimicrobial agents, which are effective, safe and can be used for the cure of multidrug-resistant microbial infections. Nano-antimicrobials offer effective solutions for these challenges; the details of these new technologies are presented here. The book includes  chapters by an international team of experts. Chemical, physical, electrochemical, photochemical and mechanical methods of synthesis are covered. Moreover,  biological synthesis using microbes, an option that  is both eco-friendly and economically viable, is presented. The antimicrobial potential of different nanoparticles is also covered, bioactivity mechanisms are elaborated on, and several applications are reviewed in separate sections. Lastly, the toxicology of nano-antimicrobials is briefly assessed.