Burn wound infection delays wound healing, leading to varying degrees of morbidity and mortality. Various antibiotics are administered to burn patients in burn wound management. The emergence of antibiotic resistance is a menace that costs families and the country. This review seeks to expound on infections related to burn wounds, common bacteria of burn wound infections and choice of antibioti...

Silver ion has been used for centuries to prevent and treat a variety of diseases and infections. In recent years, extensive studies have been undertaken on the use of antimicrobial properties of silver, incorporated within medical devices. The aim of this study was to prepare a formulation containing silver ion, which could be applied for wound dressing. The purity of nanosilver was measured b...

Antibacterial resistance is by far one of the greatest challenges to global health. Many pharmaceutical or material strategies have been explored overcome this dilemma. Of these, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are known a non-specific antibacterial mechanism that renders it difficult engender silver-resistant bacteria, enabling them be more powerful agents than conventional antibiotics. AgNPs sho...

Correspondence: Asad U Khan Medical Microbiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India Tel +91 98 3702 1912 Fax +91 57 1272 1776 Email [email protected] Dear Editor This is with reference to an article published recently in your journal regarding the antibiotic activity of chitosan-coated silver nanoparticles...

The aim of this study was to promote resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis, Typhimurium, and Virchow to commonly used antibacterials and to identify mechanisms underlying any resistance obtained. Strains were exposed to various biocides and following each passage adaptive resistance was recorded. Permeability changes in the outer membrane, including LPS, cell surface charge and ...

In this study, electrically conductive meta-aramid fiber paper (MAFP) was prepared by combining low-temperature plasma treatment and electroless plating. The influence of various parameters including nozzle speed, cycle time height on the electrical conductivity, washing fastness bending silver-coated MAFP investigated. results show that etched surface increased oxygen content surface. optimal ...

Disclosure: All authors are paid employees of ConvaTec Ltd, Flintshire, United Kingdom. Until recently, local wound infection has been a challenge with few management options. However, the advent of advanced wound dressings containing topical antimicrobial agents, such as silver, has provided a new approach to the control of wound pathogens. Silver has proven antimicrobial activity that include...

Meeting. This periodic gathering brings together chemists, pharmacologists and physicians interested in the medicinal use of these two precious metals. The participants were drawn from 8 countries and three continents. This meeting, because it is small and interdisciplinary, provides an intense interchange of ideas during the formal sessions, and perhaps more importantly, informal discussions s...

Silver undergoes pronounced morphological changes following high-temperature treatment in various gas atmospheres. SEM analysis shows that high-temperature treatment in oxygen leads to pronounced facetting of the silver surface.In situXRD shows a strong texturing of the polycrystalline bulk and an expansion of the unit cell resulting from the dissolution of oxygen. Two distinctly different form...