Towards advances in medicinal plant antimicrobial activity: A review study on challenges and future perspectives

N Vaou, E Stavropoulou, C Voidarou, C Tsigalou… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens raises an urgent need to identify and
isolate new bioactive compounds from medicinal plants using standardized modern …

[HTML][HTML] Antibacterial plant compounds, extracts and essential oils: An updated review on their effects and putative mechanisms of action

FJ Álvarez-Martínez, E Barrajón-Catalán… - Phytomedicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Background: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a global health threat. Traditional antibiotics
can lose their effectiveness, and the development of novel effective antimicrobials has …

Progress in alternative strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance: Focus on antibiotics

J Murugaiyan, PA Kumar, GS Rao, K Iskandar… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance, and, in a broader perspective, antimicrobial resistance (AMR),
continues to evolve and spread beyond all boundaries. As a result, infectious diseases have …

Comprehensive review of antimicrobial activities of plant flavonoids

I Górniak, R Bartoszewski, J Króliczewski - Phytochemistry reviews, 2019 - Springer
Flavonoids are one of the largest classes of small molecular secondary metabolites
produced in different parts of the plant. They display a wide range of pharmacological and …

Antimicrobial activity of polyphenols and alkaloids in middle eastern plants

L Othman, A Sleiman, RM Abdel-Massih - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotic-resistant microorganisms have been an ever-growing concern over the past years.
This has led researchers to direct their attention onto plants to be able to discover new …

A systematic review of plants with antibacterial activities: A taxonomic and phylogenetic perspective

F Chassagne, T Samarakoon, G Porras… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Antimicrobial resistance represents a serious threat to human health across the
globe. The cost of bringing a new antibiotic from discovery to market is high and return on …

Interactions between medical plant-derived bioactive compounds: focus on antimicrobial combination effects

N Vaou, E Stavropoulou, C Voidarou, Z Tsakris… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is accepted that the medicinal use of complex mixtures of plant-derived bioactive
compounds is more effective than purified bioactive compounds due to beneficial …

The re-emergence of natural products for drug discovery in the genomics era

AL Harvey, RA Edrada-Ebel, RJ Quinn - Nature reviews drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Natural products have been a rich source of compounds for drug discovery. However, their
use has diminished in the past two decades, in part because of technical barriers to …

Synergistic interactions of phytochemicals with antimicrobial agents: Potential strategy to counteract drug resistance

M Ayaz, F Ullah, A Sadiq, F Ullah, M Ovais… - Chemico-biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
The emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogens is a global threat and has created
problems in providing adequate treatment of many infectious diseases. Although the …

Antibacterial activity and mode of action of ferulic and gallic acids against pathogenic bacteria

A Borges, C Ferreira, MJ Saavedra… - Microbial drug …, 2013 - liebertpub.com
The increased resistance of pathogenic microorganisms is frequently attributed to the
extreme and inadequate use of antibiotics and transmission of resistance within and …