Antibacterial activities of gold and silver nanoparticles against <it>Escherichia coli</it> and bacillus Calmette-Guérin

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) have always had a large impact on human health. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is used as a surrogate for TB during the development of anti-TB drugs. Nanoparticles (NPs) have attracted great interes...

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Main Authors: Zhou Yan, Kong Ying, Kundu Subrata, Cirillo Jeffrey D, Liang Hong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-05-01
Series:Journal of Nanobiotechnology
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/10/1/19