“…Moreover, the synthesized ZnONPs exhibited potent antimicrobial activity compared to the standard antimicrobials (amoxicillin/clavulanic acid and nystatin). Previous reports have demonstrated the antimicrobial activity of ZnONPs against several bacterial and fungal species; P. aeruginosa (Jayaseelan et al ; Rajabairavi et al ), Enterococcus sp., S. aureus and P. mirabilis (Chauhan et al ), E.coli and B. subtilis (Balraj et al ), S. aureus and E. coli (Khatami et al ), B. subtilis , E. coli and P. fluorescens (Jiang et al ), H. pylori (Saravanan et al ), A. flavus (Jayaseelan et al ), A. alternata , A. niger , B. cinerea , F. oxysporum and P. expansum (Jamdagni et al ), B. subtilis , S. aureus , E. faecalis , E. coli , P. aeruginosa , K. pneumoniae , C. albicans and C. tropicalis (Abd Elkodous et al ; Gao et al ). Our results further showed that the estimated MIC value of the synthesized ZnONPs against the tested microbes was in the range of 50–100 µg ml −1 .…”