Marine organisms comprising microbes, plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates elaborate an
impressive array of structurally diverse antimicrobial products ranging from small cyclic …

Plants hold great promise as a source of novel antimicrobial agents due to a wide variety of
chemically and structurally diverse secondary metabolites generally grouped into …

Antibiotics are naturally occurring or synthetic organic compounds which inhibit or destroy
selective bacteria, generally at low concentrations (Brooks et al., 2007). In spite of the fact …

In our previous review we mentioned that many plants possessed antimicrobial activities
including Achillea santolina, Adiantum capillus-veneris, Agrimonia eupatoria, Agropyron …

The role of natural products as a source for remedies has been recognized since ancient
times. Despite major scientific and technological progress in combinatorial chemistry, drugs …

Concern over the reports of antibiotic‐resistant bacterial infections in hospitals and in the
community has been publicized in the media, accompanied by comments on the risk that we …

The global burden of bacterial infections is very high and has been exacerbated by
increasing resistance to multiple antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance leads to failed treatment of …

Natural antimicrobials include agents found in plants, microbes, insects, and animals
(Naidu, 2000; Sofos et al., 1998). This chapter focuses on the natural antimicrobials that …

Antibiotic resistance had first been reported not long after the discovery of the first antibiotic
and has remained a major public health issue ever since. Challenges are constantly …

Antibiotics are mostly naturally occurring powerful medicines which are used for the
treatment of many common diseases or infections caused by pathogenic bacteria. These …