Antibiotics are essential drugs used to treat pathogenic bacteria, but their prolonged use
contributes to the development and spread of drug-resistant microorganisms. Antibiotic …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a class of short, usually positively charged polypeptides
that exist in humans, animals, and plants. Considering the increasing number of drug …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), or host defence peptides, are short proteins in various life
forms. Here we discuss AMPs, which may become a promising substitute or adjuvant in …

There has been a spurt in the spread of microbial resistance to antibiotics due to
indiscriminate use of antimicrobial agents in human medicine, agriculture, and animal …

Fungal infections caused by Candida species have become a constant threat to public
health, especially for immunocompromised patients, who are considered susceptible to this …

The emergence of pathogens resistant to conventional antibiotics and the growing interest in
developing alternative natural antimicrobial agents have prompted a search for plant …

Plants are good sources of biologically active compounds with antimicrobial activity,
including polypeptides. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) represent one of the main barriers of …

Antimicrobial peptide (AMP), also called host defense peptide, is a part of the innate immune
system in eukaryotic organisms. AMPs are also produced by prokaryotes in response to …

A large range of ingredients for food and food products are subject to fungal contamination,
which is a major cause of destruction of crops, exposure of animals and humans to invasive …

For millennia, humanity has relied on plants for its medicines, and modern pharmacology
continues to reexamine and mine plant metabolites for novel compounds and to guide …