Herbal Plant Synthesis of Antibacterial Silver Nanoparticles by Solanum trilobatum and Its Characterization

Table 1

Zone of inhibition against pathogenic bacteria using green synthesized silver nanoparticles.

Antibacterial agent	Zone inhibition (mm in diameter)
	B. subtilis	Streptococcus sp.	Serratia sp.	E.  coli	K. planticola	K. pneumonia
Leaf extract	6.4 ± 0.23	6.77 ± 0.14	7.00 ± 0.57	6.84 ± 0.12	6.63 ± 0.33	6.71 ± 0.18
Silver nitrate solution	9.0 ± 0.57	12.73 ± 0.14	11.40 ± 0.21	10.43 ± 0.18	10.3 ± 1.2	12.97 ± 0.12
Silver nanoparticles	11.0 ± 0.30	13.13 ± 0.13	12.33 ± 1.20	14.9 ± 0.07	14.1 ± 0.17	13.9 ± 0.09
Commercial antibiotic disc	10.8 ± 0.16	12.57 ± 0.23	11.33 ± 0.66	10.00 ± 0.57	10.3 ± 0.33	11.17 ± 0.60