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Antibacterial action of silver nanoparticles on biofilm producing multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Antimicrobial agents

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Background: bacteria have acquired the ability to adapt to stress conditions and developed various mechanisms of resistance; there is a need to develop new bactericidal materials. Objective: The aim of this study is to test the effect of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on increasing the antibiotic-susceptibility of MDR biofilm-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Methodology: The antibiotic susceptibility testing of the isolates were done by the Modified Kirby- Bauer method and phenotypic detection of biofilm –forming isolates was done by the Congo Red Agar method. Results: Biofilm-production was found in16.3% of isolates and 77.6% were negative. The highest resistance rate was to piperacillin (67%), followed by ticarcillin-clavulanate (63%), while the isolates were highly sensitive to colistin (73%), polymyxin B (64%), and moderately-sensitive to meropenem (58%). Ten μL of Silver nanoparticles suspensions with size ranged from 20- 40 nm and average size 30 nm were added to the used antibiotics with retesting the isolates for their antibiotic susceptibility. Conclusion: AgNPs exhibited a strong synergistic effect with antibiotics through the significant increase of the antibiotic inhibitory zones and the improvement of the susceptibility profile of the isolates.

DOI

10.21608/ejmm.2020.250238

Keywords

Pseudomonas, AgNPs, Biofilm, Nanoparticles

Authors

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Thabet

MiddleName

Nasr Eldin

Affiliation

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University

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29

Article Issue

2

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35723

Issue Date

2020-04-01

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2022-07-21

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2020-04-01

Page Start

145

Page End

152

Print ISSN

1110-2179

Online ISSN

2537-0979

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250,238

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New and original researches in the field of Microbiology.

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2,038

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Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology

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https://ejmm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Antibacterial action of silver nanoparticles on biofilm producing multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains

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23 Jan 2023