@Article{biocell.2018.07014,
AUTHOR = {Mahmoud MOUSTAFA, Saad ALAMRI, Mohamed ELNOUBY, Tarek TAHA, M. A. ABU-SAIED, Ali SHATI, Mohamed AL-KAHTANI, Sulaiman ALRUMMAN},
TITLE = {Hydrothermal preparation of TiO<sub>2</sub>-Ag nanoparticles and its antimicrobial performance against human pathogenic microbial cells in water},
JOURNAL = {BIOCELL},
VOLUME = {42},
YEAR = {2018},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {93--98},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/biocell/v42n3/33754},
ISSN = {1667-5746},
ABSTRACT = {Water contaminated with pathogenic microbes is considered as one of the most common routes for
transmitting diseases in human beings. Different methods have been applied for the decontamination of microbes
in contaminated water. In the current study, an easy to do hydrothermal method has been used for the preparation
of TiO<sub>2</sub>-Ag nanoparticles. The obtained material was characterised using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and
fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (FTIR). The morphological appearance of the obtained nanoparticles was
in the shape of a sphere with a size range of 60-90 nm. The antimicrobial activity of the prepared nanoparticles was
tested against several pathogenic bacteria and fungi. The obtained results proved that the nanoparticles succeeded
to affect all the tested microbes in the following order: <i>Bacillus cereus</i> ATCC6633><i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>
ATCC9027= <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> ATCC13883><i>Vibrio cholera </i>ATCC700=<i>Candida albicans</i> ATCC 700=<i>Escherichia
coli</i> NCTC10418><i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> ATCC6538. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the prepared
nanoparticles varied among the tested microbes at range of 12 mg/ml and 25 mg/ml. These results encourage the
application of prepared TiO<sub>2</sub>-Ag nanoparticles for treatment of microbe-contaminated waters.},
DOI = {10.32604/biocell.2018.07014}
}