RETRACTED: Bioinspired Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle and its Combined Efficacy with Different Antibiotics against Multidrug Resistant Bacteria

Sana Ehsan^1*, Muhammad Sajjad²

¹Abasyn University, Peshawar, Pakistan.
²School of Physics and Astronomy, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jbnb.2017.82011                

Abstract

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Keywords

Bioinspired Synthesis, UV, SEM, EDAX, FTIR, XRD

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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