“…In 2017 Sheng et al [ 9 ] reviewed that over 1000 articles concerned the effects of nanoparticles on bacteria and over 90% of them were published after 2008. At present, more and more publications concerning the synthesis and antibacterial activity of silver nanoforms are being published [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 ].…”