BACKGROUND Recently, natural products have been evaluated as sources of antimicrobial agents with efficacies against a variety of micro-organisms. METHODS This report describes the antimicrobial activities of pomegranate rind extract (PRE) singularly and in combination with cupric sulphate against methicillin-sensitive and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA, MRSA respectively), and Panton...

13 14 In this work, extraction and characterization of compounds with antioxidant and antimicrobial 15 activity from Haematococcus pluvialis microalga in red phase have been carried out. To do 16 this, subcritical water extraction (SWE) has been combined with analytical techniques such as 17 HPLC-DAD, HPLC-QqQMS and GC-MS and in-vitro assays (i.e., for antioxidant and 18 antimicrobial activity)...

This review discusses the status, antimicrobial mechanisms, application, and regulation of natural preservatives in livestock food systems. Conventional preservatives are synthetic chemical substances including nitrates/nitrites, sulfites, sodium benzoate, propyl gallate, and potassium sorbate. The use of artificial preservatives is being reconsidered because of concerns relating to headache, a...

  Objective(s):   The ongoing increasing antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges faced by global public health. The perennial need for new antimicrobials against a background of increasing antibiotic resistance in pathogenic and opportunistic microorganisms obliges the scientific community to constantly develop new drugs and antimicrobial agents. Lichens are known pro...

The purpose of this research was to study the neutralization efficacy of a universal neutralizer proposed by the CTPA on a range of antimicrobial agents and its potential toxicity for microorganisms that are used for antimicrobial preservation testing. Several types of antimicrobial agents including a mixture of methylisothiazolinone and its 5-chloro derivative, dimethylol dimethyl hydantoin, Q...

The antimicrobial activity of 144 samples of honeys including 95 products from apiaries located in Northern Poland was evaluated. The antibacterial activity of those natural products, their thermal stability, and activity in the presence of catalase was investigated by microdilution assays in titration plates. The MTT assay was performed for the determination of anti-biofilm activity. Spectroph...

The resistance of the bacteria and fungi to the innumerous antimicrobial agents constitutes one of the great challenges in the treatment of infections, conditioning to the necessity of searching and finding new sources of substances with antimicrobial properties. Essential oils are aromatic oily liquids that can be obtained from several parts of the plants Known for their medicinal properties, ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing worldwide threat to public health due to the increase of resistant pathogens to the existing antimicrobial therapy. Common and nosocomial infections are beginning to require 2nd and 3rd line antibiotic therapy, increasing time and cost of treatment, and also contributing to the development of multidrug resistance (MDR). Natural products remain an impo...