Silver. I: Its antibacterial properties and mechanism of action. (2002)
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@MISC{Silver02silver.i:,
author = {Oligodynamic Silver and Lansdown Ab},
title = {Silver. I: Its antibacterial properties and mechanism of action.},
year = {2002}
}
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Abstract
startling news was that this mortality rate climbed to 70,000 for the very next year. As a result, the CDC in 1994 declared this health crises as America’s number one health issue.2 Today, over 2 million Americans suffer with nosocomial super germ infections. 3 In fact, other the industrial countries such as Great Britain are reporting an infection rate for super germs that exceeds 3.5 per 1,000 hospital admissions. 4 This translates into a stunning 350 patients per 100,000 patients admitted. Simply stated, those numbers are approaching epidemic levels within many hospitals throughout the industrialized world. As early as 1940 Goetz remarked that, “The minimum lethal concentration of oligodynamically active silver definitely depends upon the nature of the substrate in which the test is made as well as upon the nature and concentration of the test microorganisms. ” 5 Right up to the present time, microbial resistance to medicinal silver has not been scientifically established. This point has been made by Lansdown (2002).
Keyphrases
antibacterial property super germ infection rate nosocomial super germ infection health issue mortality rate industrialized world epidemic level hospital admission great britain active silver industrial country test microorganism microbial resistance present time next year many hospital minimum lethal concentration
