Silver as a Disinfectant

The antimicrobial effects of silver (Ag) have been recognized for thousands of years. In ancient times, it was used in water containers (Grier 1983) and to prevent putrefaction of liquids and foods. In ancient times in Mexico, water and milk were kept in silver containers (Davis and Etris 1997). Sil...

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Autores principales: Silvestry-Rodriguez, Nadia, Sicairos-Ruelas, Enue E., Gerba, Charles P., Bright, Kelly R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17708071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69163-3_2
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author Silvestry-Rodriguez, Nadia
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description The antimicrobial effects of silver (Ag) have been recognized for thousands of years. In ancient times, it was used in water containers (Grier 1983) and to prevent putrefaction of liquids and foods. In ancient times in Mexico, water and milk were kept in silver containers (Davis and Etris 1997). Silver was also mentioned in the Roman pharmacopoeia of 69 b.c. (Davis and Etris 1997).
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spelling pubmed-71200632020-04-06 Silver as a Disinfectant Silvestry-Rodriguez, Nadia Sicairos-Ruelas, Enue E. Gerba, Charles P. Bright, Kelly R. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Article The antimicrobial effects of silver (Ag) have been recognized for thousands of years. In ancient times, it was used in water containers (Grier 1983) and to prevent putrefaction of liquids and foods. In ancient times in Mexico, water and milk were kept in silver containers (Davis and Etris 1997). Silver was also mentioned in the Roman pharmacopoeia of 69 b.c. (Davis and Etris 1997). 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC7120063/ /pubmed/17708071 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69163-3_2 Text en © Springer 2007 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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