The study of the effect of silver contained in the B2O3-CaO-P2O5 on Candida albicans
Abstract
The present paper studied the action of the oxidic glass from the xAg2O (100- x)[42B2O324CaO34P2O5] system with 0 ≤ x ≤ 9 mol% on the fungi Candida albicans through the method of diffusion on agar. The powder manifests an inhibitory effect on all the tested strains, the c3 strain being totally inhibited, the growth in plate being almost inexistent. For the c1, c2 and c4 strains the inhibitive effect depends on the x molar concentration of A2O in the structure of the glass, the biggest diameter was of 24 mm and it was measured for the c2 strain. The diameter of the inhibition areas is proportional with the concentration of Ag2O in the vitreous samples.
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