Silver. I: Its antibacterial properties and mechanism of action.

By A. Lansdown. Journal of Wound Care, 2002

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Treating the chronic wound: A practical approach to the care of nonhealing wounds and wound care dressings. (2008, background): “Silver ions kill bacteria by binding to and disrupting bacterial cell walls, damaging intracellular and nuclear membranes, poisoning respiratory enzymes, and denaturing bacterial DNA and RNA.(142,145) Although some species of bacteria (Pseudomonas in particular) have demonstrated resistance to certa”
Antimicrobial activities of silver dressings: an in vitro comparison. (2006, background): “The use of metallic silver as an antimicrobial agent has long been recognized (Klasen, 2000; Lansdown, 2002a).”
Silver nanoparticles: the powerful nanoweapon against multidrug‐resistant bacteria (2012, methodology): “Silver ions have capacity to inhibit the bacterial replication, by binding and denaturing bacterial DNA (Landsdown 2002; Castellano et al. 2007).”
Biogenic Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Scenedesmus abundans and Evaluation of Their Antibacterial Activity (2014, background): “AgNPs have been verified to exhibit antimicrobial properties against bacteria with close attachment of the nanoparticles with the microbial cell and the action being size dependent [35–37].”