Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Products and Plants Extracts, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant-Derived Antibiotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 432
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial assays; biological activities of natural products; herbal extracts; antimicrobial resistance; zoonotic bacteria
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Interests: phytochemistry; biological activities of plant-origin bioactive compounds; chromatography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first edition of the Special Issue “Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Products and Plants Extracts” was published in 2023. It is a successful collection with 10 excellent papers and has encouraged us to open a second edition with the same topic.
As a continuation of the first Special Issue, this second edition aims to discuss the different aspects of the antimicrobial potential of natural products, including screening of antimicrobial potential, the antimicrobial efficacy of natural products and plant extracts correlated to their chemical composition and/or other biological properties, interconnected pathways, and mechanisms of action, synergism, and standardization.
Manuscripts reporting on the plant extracts antimicrobial screening based on basic methodologies (such as zone-of-inhibition assays) and non- standardized protocols will not normally be considered for publication in this Section. The antimicrobial activities should be further quantified by MIC, IC50, or other statistical determinations. Furthermore, manuscripts dealing with plant extracts evaluation that does not include chemical characterization will not normally be considered for publication.
Dr. Mihaela Niculae
Dr. Daniela Hanganu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- plant extracts
- bioactive compounds
- phytoconstituents
- antibacterial efficacy
- in vitro screening
- in vivo evaluation
- antibiofilm
- anti-quorum
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