Interaction between a Broad-spectrum Antibiotic and Silver Nanoparticles in a Human Gut Ecosystem

Pranab Das^1*#, Saulnier E^1#, Carlucci C², Allen-Vercoe E², Shah V³ and Virginia K Walker^1,4*

¹Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada

²Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada

³College of the Sciences and Mathematics, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19382, USA

⁴Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada

^#Contributed equally to this work