Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles and Their Bactericidal and Antimycotic Activities against Oral Microbes

Figure 7

Antimicrobial activity of AgNPs against Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans growth. The -axis shows the percent of viable cells. As growing control of bacteria or fungus culture media were added. AgNPs synthesized with Aa or Gb extracts were used at final concentrations of 0.1 and 1 mM. 1.2 mM of chlorhexidine and 0.2 mM of colloidal silver were employed as positive inhibitors of bacterial growth, while 0.002 mM of amphotericin B and 0.2 mM of colloidal silver were used as positive inhibitors of fungal growth. The bactericidal and antimycotic activities of AgNPs were measured after 18 h after exposition. All experiments were done by triplicate to assess the veracity of results.