Antibacterial, Antibiofilm and Anti-virulence Activity Research of Both Natural and Synthetic Products, 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 July 2025 | Viewed by 5607
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial agent; antibiofilm agent; anti-virulence agent; biofilm protein; small non-coding bacterial RNA; bacterial repeat proteins; Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis; Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: synthesis of bio-inspired compounds for application in the treatment of infectious and rare diseases; natural and synthetic small molecules as antibacterial, anti-biofilm and anti-virulence agents; antimicrobials against multi-drug resistant strains
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first edition of the Special Issue “Antibacterial, Antibiofilm and Anti-virulence Activity Research of Both Natural and Synthetic Products” was published in 2021. It is a successful collection with eight 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 present a collection of manuscripts that explore newly discovered antibacterial agents, as well as their modes of action in bacteria.
The potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Discovery and/or molecular mechanisms of novel compounds with bactericidal or bacteriostatic activity;
- Discovery and/or molecular mechanisms of novel compounds with activity against bacterial and/or fungal biofilm;
- Discovery and molecular mechanisms of novel compounds targeting bacterial virulence factors such as quorum sensing, biofilm formation, motility, toxins and pigments.
Dr. Eliana De Gregorio
Dr. Anna Esposito
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial agent
- antibiofilm agent
- synergy between new antimicrobial products and conventional antibiotics
- anti-virulence agent
- mechanism of drug action
- repurposing of approved drugs as antibacterial agent
- biofilms
- virulence factors
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