The coexistence of pharmaceuticals and heavy metals is regarded as a serious threat to
aquatic environments. Adsorbents have been widely applied to the simultaneous removal of …

Traditional organic antimicrobials mainly act on specific biochemical processes such as
replication, transcription and translation. However, the emergence and wide spread of …

The use of silver to control infections was common in ancient civilizations. In recent years,
this material has resurfaced as a therapeutic option due to the increasing prevalence of …

Abstract β-lactam antibiotics are widely used chemical compounds in medicine due to their
strong antibacterial activity. These drugs are produced by fungi (Penicillium …

Silver was widely used in medicine to treat bacterial infections in the 19th and early 20th
century, up until the discovery and development of the first modern antibiotics in the 1940s …

Abstract The emergence of Multi-Drug-Resistant (MDR) organisms has become a major
worldwide clinical problem. The extensive and routine use of the first-line antibiotics to …

Antibiotic–metal complexes (AMCs) formed by antibiotics and metal ions have attracted
considerable attentions in recent years. Although different removal methods for AMCs have …

Fluoroquinolones (FQs), the group of broad spectrum antimicrobials, are frequently detected
in different environmental compartments, mostly due to incomplete metabolism in the target …

The present study reported a single step synthesis of silver nanoparticles using ampicillin
(Amp-AgNps), a second-generation β lactam antibiotic to get nanoformulation having dual …

Antimicrobials are useful compounds intended to eradicate or stop the growth of harmful
microorganisms. The sustained increase in the rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) …