Antimicrobial Effects and Immunological Mechanisms of Natural Products
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2025) | Viewed by 1795
Editors
Interests: oral pathogens; Porphyromonas gingivalis; Fusobacterium nucleatum; innate immunity; inflammasome; host-pathogen interactions; epithelium
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Infectious diseases are a major issue for the overall health of humans, contributing to morbidity and mortality. Pathogens are associated with acute and chronic diseases that can affect virtually any tissue in the body and can lead to other clinical conditions, including cancer.
Modern medicine has drastically changed since the first antimicrobial was used in 1910. Antimicrobials extended the average human lifespan by approximately two decades. However, the increasing rate of antibiotic drug resistance, the cost of drugs, and the lack of access to healthcare systems for many people, especially in less-developed countries, support the need for studying traditional medicines for sustainable, cost-effective therapeutic purposes.
Natural products are generally considered to be safer than synthetic drugs, and there is growing interest in further developing the use of natural substances as the source of therapeutic treatments.
This Special Issue aims to collect original articles, literature reviews, and case reports on the antimicrobial effects and immunological mechanisms of emerging natural products during infectious diseases.
Dr. Cassio Almeida-da-Silva
Dr. Jan Martel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- antimicrobial
- immunology
- treatment
- microbiology
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