Antimicrobial properties of plant essential oils against human pathogens and their mode of action: an updated review

MK Swamy, MS Akhtar… - … Based Complementary and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A wide range of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have been explored for their
essential oils in the past few decades. Essential oils are complex volatile compounds …

[HTML][HTML] Current strategies to determine antifungal and antimicrobial activity of natural compounds

ES Armengol, M Harmanci, F Laffleur - Microbiological Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Fungal and microbial infections are increasingly common diseases affecting not only
humans, but also animals. Despite the fact that there are wide ranges of antifungal drugs …

Antimicrobial properties of Lactobacillus cell‐free supernatants against multidrug‐resistant urogenital pathogens

M Scillato, A Spitale, G Mongelli, GF Privitera… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The healthy vaginal microbiota is dominated by Lactobacillus spp., which provide an
important critical line of defense against pathogens, as well as giving beneficial effects to the …

[PDF][PDF] The mode of antibacterial action of essential oils

ML Faleiro - Science against microbial pathogens: communicating …, 2011 - academia.edu
The antimicrobial activity of essential oils and their components has been recognized for a
very long time. Essential oils (EOs) are made from a very complex mixture of volatile …

Sensitivity of Candida albicans to essential oils: are they an alternative to antifungal agents?

E Bona, S Cantamessa, M Pavan… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aims Candida albicans is an important opportunistic pathogen, responsible for the majority
of yeast infections in humans. Essential oils, extracted from aromatic plants, are well‐known …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotic pigment from desert soil actinomycetes; biological activity, purification and chemical screening

L Selvameenal, M Radhakrishnan… - Indian journal of …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
An actinomycete strain, Streptomyces hygroscopicus subsp. ossamyceticus (strain D10) was
isolated from Thar Desert soil, Rajasthan during the year 2006 and found to produce a …

[HTML][HTML] Current landscape of methods to evaluate antimicrobial activity of natural extracts

R Gonzalez-Pastor, SE Carrera-Pacheco… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Natural extracts have been and continue to be used to treat a wide range of medical
conditions, from infectious diseases to cancer, based on their convenience and therapeutic …

Standard methods for pollen research

MG Campos, O Anjos, M Chica, P Campoy… - Journal of Apicultural …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract “Bee pollen” is pollen collected from flowers by honey bees. It is used by the bees to
nourish themselves, mainly by providing royal jelly and brood food, but it is also used for …

[HTML][HTML] New antimicrobial therapies used against fungi present in subgingival sites—a brief review

JCO Sardi, AMF Almeida, MJSM Giannini - Archives of oral biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Although the main reservoir of Candida spp. is believed to be the buccal mucosa, these
microorganisms can coaggregate with bacteria in subgingival biofilm and adhere to …

Design, ecofriendly synthesis, anticancer and antimicrobial screening of innovative Biginelli dihydropyrimidines using β-aroylpyruvates as synthons

A El-Malah, Z Mahmoud, H Hamed Salem… - … Chemistry Letters and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
New ecofriendly Biginelli reaction procedures have been adapted to prepare new
dihydropyrimidines (DHPMs) using a multicomponent one-pot reaction. All the synthesized …