“…It is an important ingredient of multiple traditional medicine formulations (Saper et al, 2004; Inder and Kumar, 2014; Parimalam et al, 2020). Modern times has also witnessed numerous reports (Burange et al, 2021; Korkmaz, 2020; Khan et al, 2023) describing different types of biological activities of silver. Antimicrobial activity of different forms of silver has also been documented e.g., antiviral (Balasubramaniam et al, 2020; Jain et al, 2021; Ratan et al, 2021), antibacterial (Balasubramaniam et al, 2020; Ibrahim et al, 2020; Bruna et al, 2021), antifungal (Mussin et al, 2022; Matras et al, 2022), antiprotozoal (Abou Elez et al, 2023), and anthelmintic (Majumdar and Kar, 2023; Gajera et al, 2023a).…”