Antimicrobial effectiveness of silver nanoparticles co-stabilized by the bioactive copolymer pluronic F68

Table 1 Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of polymer-stabilized silver nanoparticles against S. aureus

*S. aureus 10 6 CFU/mL Minimal Inhibitory Concentration*
wells	%	AgNps/PVP/pluronic pH 6.27	AgNps/PVA/pluronic pH 6.25	AgNps/citrate/pluronic pH 6.33	AgNps/citrate pH 6.1	AgNps/PVA pH 5.91	AgNps/PVP pH 5.97
1	100	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	50	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	25	+	-	-	+	-	+
4	12.5	+	+	+	+	+	+
5	6.25	+	+	+	+	+	+
6	3.13	+	+	+	+	+	+
7	1.56	+	+	+	+	+	+
8	0.78	+	+	+	+	+	+
9	0.39	+	+	+	+	+	+
10	0.20	+	+	+	+	+	+
11	0.10	-	-	-	-	-	-
12	-	+	+	+	+	+	+

(+)Showed growth of microorganism. (-) No growth of microorganisms. 11 negative control/12 positive control.

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