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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 342, Issue -, Pages 625-632Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.08.078
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Human pathogens; Low-cost remediation
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- National Council of Science and Technology [Consejo Nacional para Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT)] [41607]
- Mexican Oil Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo)
- CONACYT doctoral scholarship [316675]
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria persist throughout the world because they have evolved the ability to express various defense mechanisms to cope with antibiotics and the immune system; thus, low-cost strategies for the treatment of these bacteria are needed, such as the usage of environmental minerals. This paper reports the antimicrobial properties of a clay collected from Brunnenberg, Germany, that is composed of ferroan saponite with admixtures of quartz, feldspar and calcite as well as exposed or hidden (layered at inner regions) nano Fe(0). Based on the growth curves (log phase) of six antibiotic resistant bacteria (4 gram-negative and 2 gram-positive), we concluded that the clay acted as a bacteriostat; however, the day was only active againstthe gram-negative bacteria (except for resilient Klebsiella pneumonia). The bacteriostatic mode of action was evidenced by the initial lack of Colony Forming Units on agar plates with growth registered afterward, certainly after 24 h, and can be explained because interactions between membrane lipopolysaccharides and the siloxane surfaces of the clay. Labile or bioavailable Fe in the clay (extracted by EDTA or DFO-B) induced the quantitative production of HO center dot as well as oxidative stress, which, nevertheless, did not account for by its bacteriostatic activity. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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