Fungal-derived selenium nanoparticles and their potential applications in electroless silver coatings for preventing pin-tract infections.

ABSTRACT: Pin-tract infections (PTIs) are a common complication of external fixation of fractures and current strategies for preventing PTIs have proven to be ineffective. Recent advances show that the use of anti-infection coatings with local antibacterial activity may solve this problem. Selenium has been considered as a promising anti-infection agent owing to its antibacterial and antibiofilm activities. In this study, selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) were synthesized via a cost-effective fungi-mediated biorecovery approach and demonstrated excellent stability and homogeneity. To investigate their anti-infection potential, the SeNPs were doped in silver coatings through an electroless plating process and the silver-selenium (Ag-Se) coatings were tested for antibacterial and antibiofilm prope

SUBMITTER: Liang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9017370 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature