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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Recent Pat Antiinfect Drug Discov. 2010 Jun 1;5(2):124–151. doi: 10.2174/157489110791233522

Fig. 8. Use of silver as a topical antimicrobial agent in burns.

Fig. 8

Silver has multiple mechanisms of action as an antimicrobial agent including permeabilization of bacterial cell walls and generation of intracellular reactive oxygen species.

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