Advances in Natural Antimicrobial Compounds: Discovery, Synthesis, Characterization, and Application
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2025 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antibacterial activity; microbiology; infectious disease; epidemiology; public health; antimicrobials
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Interests: microbiology; multidrug resistance; essential oils; bacterial biofilms; bacteriocin and probiotics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance is gaining more attention as one of the greatest threats to the prevention and treatment of an increasing number of infections. Thus, there is a pressing need for the continuous supply of novel antibiotics to combat such diseases. At present, the high occurrence of resistance to all major classes of known antibiotics represents a new challenge, and new classes of antibacterial compounds are urgently required to respond to this unmet clinical need. Natural resources such as microorganisms, plants, and animals are used to extract novel compounds, of which microbes are a major source of new antimicrobial agents.
This Special Issue aims to explore natural antimicrobial compounds, emphasizing their synthesis, characterization, and diverse applications in clinical and environmental contexts within the framework of the One Health approach.
Dr. Carla Sabia
Dr. Ramona Iseppi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- bacteriocins
- antibacterial compounds
- antibiofilm activity
- antibiotic resistance
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