Atmospheric Corrosion, Antibacterial Properties, and Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized by Two Different Routes

Table 4

Minimum inhibitory concentrations of Ag nanomaterials.

MIC of silver nanoparticles (mg/ml)
Sample	Bacterial strains
	E. coli	S. aureus	E. faecalis	P. aeruginosa
	(ATCC 25922)	(ATCC 29213)	(ATCC 29212)	(ATCC 25853)
G-AgNPs-1	3.37 ± 0.0	3.37 ± 0.0	6.68 ± 0.0	3.37 ± 0.0
S-AgNPs-1	13.75 ± 0.0	13.75 ± 0.0	26.75 ± 0.0	13.75 ± 0.0
G-AgNPs-2	13.75 ± 0.0	13.75 ± 0.0	13.75 ± 0.0	13.75 ± 0.0
S-AgNPs-2	107 ± 0.0	107 ± 0.0	107 ± 0.0	107 ± 0.0
Amikacin	1 ± 0.0	2 ± 0.0	128 ± 0.0	4 ± 0.0
Brickellia cavanillesii	−a	−a	−a	−a
Tannic acid	−a	−a	−a	−a

−a, no antibacterial activity was found with concentrations used in this work.