Natural Products for Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Application
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 17501
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiology (interaction microorganism/host; antimicrobial effect of natural and sintetic molecules); biology; immunology
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Interests: biofilm; antimicrobial activity; antimicrobial strategy; natural extract; biofilm degradation; biofilm formation; virology; microorganism-host interaction; antibiotics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is entitled “Natural Product for Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Applications".
Natural products represent promising starting points for the development of new drugs and therapeutic agents. The emergence of life-threatening bacterial, fungal, and viral infections and the growing resistance of pathogens to current treatment strategies highlight the need to develop new compounds to combat them, and many infectious diseases are difficult to eradicate due to biofilm formation by microbial agents. The best candidates are natural molecules with low toxicity and high bioavailability, usually derived from several natural sources, including plants, bacteria, algae, and fungi. The study of natural products is multidisciplinary and involves different fields of study such as biology, pharmacology, microbiology, chemistry, nutraceuticals, etc., which can help to better clarify the role of natural products. This Special Issue focuses on the antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity of natural products with the aim of illustrating the most recent and relevant developments in natural product research. We are pleased to invite authors to refer with original research articles or to review articles on multidisciplinary approaches related to the development of new and natural antimicrobial strategies. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: biology, pharmacology, microbiology, chemistry, nutraceuticals.
I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Anna De Filippis
Dr. Biagio Santella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial effect
- natural molecules
- biofilm eradication
- microbiology
- antimicrobial nutraceuticals
- algae metabolites
- antibacterial
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