Natural Compounds as Antimicrobial Agents, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Novel Antimicrobial Agents".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 3961
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food safety; analytical chemistry; food microbiology; antimicrobial resistant bacteria; food-borne pathogens; transcriptomics; genotyping; chromatography; mass spectrometry; biofilms; antimicrobial detection; Microbiome
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We have published two successful volumes of the Special Issue “Natural Compounds as Antimicrobial Agents”, and this has encouraged us to open a third volume focused on the same topic.
As a continuation of the Special Issues published in 2019 and 2020, this third volume will further develop the use of these compounds for many different applications, from clinical aspects to their use in the food industry, or even in animal production. Researchers from different parts of the world are also aware of plant-derived substances specific to their latitudes for which there is sparse scientific research published in the literature, and this is a good opportunity to share that knowledge with the scientific community through the open access journal Antibiotics. All these natural compounds share the advantages of having soft legal regulations as well as better user perceptions regarding applications that are derived from a natural or traditional origin.
Thus, this Special Issue will cover, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- New natural antimicrobial compounds;
- Antimicrobial effects;
- Clinical applications;
- Animal production applications;
- Antifungal properties;
- Antiviral properties;
- Food applications;
- New formulations;
- Antibacterial mechanisms;
- Antifungal mechanisms;
- MICs;
- Activity as disinfectants;
- Activity against biofilms;
- Effects on transcriptomics;
- Combination with other antimicrobials;
- Global microbiome changes.
Prof. Dr. Carlos M. Franco
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- new natural antimicrobial compounds
- antimicrobial effects
- clinical applications
- animal production applications
- antifungal properties
- antiviral properties
- food applications
- new formulations
- antibacterial mechanisms
- antifungal mechanisms
- MICs
- activity as disinfectants
- activity against biofilms
- effects on transcriptomics
- combination with other antimicrobials
- global microbiome changes
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