Research on Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Products, Third Edition
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 852
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biotechnology; cyanobacteria; natural products
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Interests: bioprospection; actinobacteria; bioactive metabolites; discovery of new natural compounds
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Interests: health biotechnology; analytical chromatography; quantification of biomolecules; antimicrobial resistance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microbial infections are responsible for millions of deaths every year and worldwide. The increased resistance to antimicrobial drugs, such as antibiotics, is the main cause and is one of the biggest challenges in human and animal health and in food safety. It is well known that human pathogenic microorganisms resistant to major classes of antibiotics have increased due to the indiscriminate use of antimicrobial drugs. Therefore, the search for the discovery of new antimicrobial agents is in urgent demand.
Finding therapeutic powers in nature is an ancient but increasingly actual idea. In recent years, strategies to overcome the resistance of antibiotics have been suggested, namely the use of phytochemicals. Natural compounds have already proved to be effective and safe sources of antimicrobial compounds and eco-friendly methodologies focused on reducing the growth of pathogenic microorganisms. This Special Issue is directed to ethnopharmacologists, botanists, microbiologists, and natural-products chemists working on developing new approaches for the treatment of infectious diseases. Papers based on the investigation of new sources of natural antimicrobial compounds or mechanisms of action of natural compounds are most welcome.
Dr. Rosário Martins
Dr. Maria De Fátima Carvalho
Dr. Mónica Vieira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial activity
- bacteria
- cyanobacteria
- fungi
- antibiotic resistance
- natural compounds
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