Innovations in Plant-Based Antibiotic and Antiviral Agents
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant-Derived Antibiotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 1623
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant secondary metabolites; antimicrobial effects of phytochemical components; biochemistry and biotechnology; plant-derived antibiotics; plant responses to stresses phytoremediation
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Interests: food chemistry; analytical chemistry; commodity chemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotics and antivirals, which can be either naturally occurring or artificially created organic compounds, are drugs that can act against bacteria, fungi and viruses. However, in recent years, a severe threat to human health has arisen worldwide as many antibiotics and antivirals have become inactive due to resistance phenomena, and no new treatments have been developed. A natural alternative to synthetic antibiotics and antivirals involves the use of plants, plant extracts, or secondary metabolites isolated from the latter, with antimicrobial action. Alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, tannins, flavonoids, coumarins, essential oils, and lectins are some examples of phytochemicals able to act against parasites. They can modulate antibiotic and antiviral susceptibility, attenuate bacterial virulence, and inhibit the microbial synthesis of the cell wall, physiology, and biofilm. Phytochemicals have the advantage of being more accepted by consumers who prefer using natural products and that they do not generate microbial resistance phenomena. Thus, antimicrobials and antivirals derived from plants, whether used independently or in conjunction with antibiotics, can contribute to addressing the current issue of antibiotic resistance. In particular, the following topics are of interest:
- Isolation and identification of antimicrobial secondary metabolites from plants;
- Isolation and identification of antiviral secondary metabolites from plants;
- Validation of analytical methods used to detect phytochemicals;
- Pharmacognosy studies (in vitro and in vivo assays);
- Pharmacology studies (in vitro and in vivo assays);
- Toxicity studies (in vitro and in vivo assays);
- Antimicrobial activities;
- Antiviral activities.
Dr. Margherita-Gabriella De Biasi
Dr. Irene Dini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- secondary metabolites
- phytochemicals
- botanicals
- analytical methods
- toxicity
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