Publications by authors named "Snehal Wagh"
A composite of Zinc oxide loaded with 5-weight % silver decorated on carbon nanotubes (Ag-loaded ZnO: CNT) was synthesized using a simple refluxed chemical method. The influence of deviation in the weight % of carbon nanotube loading on photocatalytic dye degradation (methylene blue and rose bengal) and antibiotic (antimicrobial and antifungal) performance was investigated in this study. The light capture ability of Ag-loaded ZnO:CNT in the visible region was higher in photocatalytic activity than that of Ag-loaded ZnO and ZnO:CNT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this work, silver (Ag) doped zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles were synthesized using zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, and zinc acetate precursors with (0 to 10) wt % Ag doping by a simple reflux chemical method. The nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, ultraviolet visible spectroscopy, and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The nanoparticles are studied as a photocatalyst for visible light driven annihilation of methylene blue and rose bengal dyes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: India is one of the countries in the world which contribute to the global burden of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). GeneXpert is a method recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) that uses five overlapping probes (Probe A to E) to detect mutation in the beta subunit of ribonucleic acid (RNA) polymerase gene (Rpoβ) responsible for rifampicin resistance in (MTB).
Method: All the pulmonary and extrapulmonary samples received in tuberculosis (TB) laboratory for testing of MTB from January 2018 to December 2020 were analyzed for bacillary load and rifampicin resistance was identified by analyzing the number of missing probes.