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BACKGROUND:Levofloxacin is a potent antibiotic with severe side effects due to its high doses. Bacterial resistance may be due to frequent use of antibiotics. Biogenic gold nanoparticles conjugated levofloxacin (Au-HSA-LvN-NPs) were developed by Human Serum Albumin (HSA) and nitrate reductasemediated pathways. METHODS:Au-HSA-LvN-NPs (size = 27.2 ± 1 nm) were readily generated with high emulsion stability zeta potential (-13.3 mV). The developed nanoparticles were also characterized by UVvisible spectroscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy and Dynamic Light Scattering techniques. RESULTS:The optimized nanoparticles were found efficient against both Gram-positive bacteria and Gramnegative bacteria specifically S. aureus (MIC-0.373 µg/ml), E. coli (MIC-0.149 µg/ml) and P. aeruginosa (MIC-0.346 µg/ml) respectively. CONCLUSION:The efficiency of bioconjugated levofloxacin got improved by 1.94 times, 2.89 times and 1.46 times against S. aureus, E. coli and P. aeruginosa respectively, in comparison to pure levofloxacin.
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Curr Drug Delivjournal_title
Current drug deliveryauthors
Bagga P,Siddiqui HH,Akhtar J,Mahmood T,Zahera M,Khan MSdoi
10.2174/1567201814666170316113432subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-01-01 00:00:00pages
1114-1119issue
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1567-2018issn
1875-5704pii
CDD-EPUB-82323journal_volume
14pub_type
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