Essential oils (EO) are a great antimicrobial resource against bacterial resistance in public
health. Math models are useful in describing the growth, survival, and inactivation of …

Essential oils are potential antimicrobial agents and can be used as active ingredients in the
pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries. This work intends to evaluate the …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the emerging opportunistic
pathogens that can cause food poisoning and is responsible for several infectious diseases …

Essential oils (EO) are promising natural antimicrobial additives to control microbial
pathogens. This study aims to investigate the antimicrobial activities of plant essential oils …

The individual antimicrobial activities of essential oils have been reported by many authors.
However, there is little information about the effects of their mixtures in order to maximize …

Experimental design methodology (mixture design) coupled to microdilution assay were
used to study the potential interactions between several active compounds from three …

Hurdle technologies are among the novel food processing techniques for food preservation,
where there is a combination of mild antimicrobial factors, which can interact on the …

Using disk diffusion assay and broth microdilution, we evaluated the antimicrobial activity of
38 commercially available essential oils (EOs) against 24 food pathogens and spoilers …

Essential oils are well known for their antimicrobial activity and they are used as an effective
food preservative. Virola is one of the five genera of Myristicaceae and this genus is native to …

The presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has become a major therapeutic priority. This
trend indicates the need for alternative agents to antibiotics, such as natural compounds of …