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Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1976 Feb; 9(2): 357–358.
doi: 10.1128/aac.9.2.357
PMCID: PMC429529
PMID: 944551

Electrically Generated Silver Ions: Quantitative Effects on Bacterial and Mammalian Cells

T. J. Berger, J. A. Spadaro, S. E. Chapin, and R. O. Becker
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Abstract

The inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of electrically generated silver ions were 10 to 100 times lower than for silver sulfadiazine. Effects on normal mammalian cells were minimal.

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