Estudo in vitro do potencial antibacteriano de nanopartículas de prata, associadas à quitosana e antibióticos e das interações com a superfície metálica por espectroscopia Raman intensificada por superfície

Abstract

In this work were investigated several synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), mixed or not with antibiotics and mixed or not with chitosan, in order to verify the antibacterial properties of the mixtures and the chemical interaction of the adsorbates with silver surface by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. The proposal consists in an alternative for antibiotic use, due to a large number of resistant bacteria strains. The biological tests against Escherichia coli, Pseudonomas aeruginosa, Klebisiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus epidermides were made in collaboration with the Laboratório de Fisiologia e Genética Bacteriana in the Instituto de Ciências Biológicas of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). In biological tests, some associations of the AgNPs and chitosan and the antibiotics levofloxacin (LV), benzylpenicillin (BP), tetracycline (TC), rifampicina (RP), meropenem (MP), amikacin (AC), gentamicin (GT), ampicillin (AP), oxacillin (OC) promotes the antibacterial effect in a synergic mechanism. Also were obtained the SERS spectra of LV, TC, BP and RP and the vibrational assignment were obtained by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Such work was made in collaboration with the Núcleo de Estudos em Química Computacional from the Departamento de Química of the UFJF. In this way, it was possible to perform the vibrational assignment of the Raman spectra of the solid compounds and the SERS spectra of the adsorbed species, inferring the adsorption geometries.