[HTML][HTML] Plant secondary metabolites in the battle of drugs and drug-resistant bacteria: new heroes or worse clones of antibiotics?

CL Gorlenko, HY Kiselev, EV Budanova… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases that are caused by bacteria are an important cause of mortality and
morbidity in all regions of the world. Bacterial drug resistance has grown in the last decades …

Plants as sources of new antimicrobials and resistance-modifying agents

AC Abreu, AJ McBain, M Simões - Natural product reports, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to November 2011 Infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria are an
increasing problem due to the emergence and propagation of microbial drug resistance and …

Plant-derived antimicrobial compounds: alternatives to antibiotics

D Savoia - Future microbiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens has drawn the attention of the
pharmaceutical and scientific communities towards studies on the potential antimicrobial …

Plant natural products targeting bacterial virulence factors

LN Silva, KR Zimmer, AJ Macedo, DS Trentin - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Decreased antimicrobial efficiency has become a global public health issue. The paucity of
new antibacterial drugs is evident, and the arsenal against infectious diseases needs to be …

Antimicrobial plant metabolites: structural diversity and mechanism of action

NS Radulovic, PD Blagojevic… - Current medicinal …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Microbial infectious diseases continue to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and
mortality. It has been estimated that microbial species comprise about 60% of the Earth's …

[HTML][HTML] Secondary plant metabolites as potent drug candidates against antimicrobial-resistant pathogens

K Keita, C Darkoh, F Okafor - SN Applied Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health threat of the twenty-first century and represents
an important risk to the global economy. Healthcare-associated infections mainly caused by …

Opportunities for plant natural products in infection control

AM Salam, CL Quave - Current opinion in microbiology, 2018 - Elsevier
The continued spread of antimicrobial resistance represents one of the most serious
infectious disease threats to global health. There is consensus that a key component of …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review on medicinal plants as antimicrobial therapeutics: potential avenues of biocompatible drug discovery

U Anand, N Jacobo-Herrera, A Altemimi, N Lakhssassi - Metabolites, 2019 - mdpi.com
The war on multidrug resistance (MDR) has resulted in the greatest loss to the world's
economy. Antibiotics, the bedrock, and wonder drug of the 20th century have played a …

An overview of antimicrobial properties of different classes of phytochemicals

AK Patra - Dietary phytochemicals and microbes, 2012 - Springer
Plants produce a great diversity of phytochemicals, the beneficial properties of which have
been used by humans for centuries since the advent of human civilization. With the …

[HTML][HTML] Back to Nature: Medicinal plants as promising sources for antibacterial drugs in the post-antibiotic era

EM Abdallah, BY Alhatlani, R de Paula Menezes… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Undoubtedly, the advent of antibiotics in the 19th century had a substantial impact,
increasing human life expectancy. However, a multitude of scientific investigations now …