Table 2.

The MIC values determined by colorimetric assay (resazurin), MBC (99.9% kill) and MIC/MBC ratio of mycosynthesized CuONPs against bacterial strains

Bacterial strains	MIC (μg/mL)	MBC (μg/mL)	MBC/MIC ratio	Control antibiotica (μg/mL)
Klebsiella oxytoca ATCC 51,983	6.25	25	4	5
Escherichia coli ATCC 35,218	3.12	12.5	4	5
Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25,923	12.5	50	4	7.5
Bacillus cereus ATCC 11,778	25	50	2	10

^aControl antibiotic: vancomycin for gram-positive bacteria and colistin for gram-negative bacteria