Natural Alternatives and Their Synthetic Derivatives to Antibiotics

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to gather some of the most significant and recent contributions in the interdisciplinary area of medicinal chemistry, microbiology, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, and food chemistry, with a particular emphasis on the production/synthesis, isolation from complex extracts and full characterization, biological effects, uses, and toxicity of natural products and their semi-synthetic derivatives. The applications of natural active compounds must be strictly focused on bacterial infections, food contamination and preservation, in silico characterization, screening, inhibition of biofilm production and resistance development, herbal formulations, new mechanisms of action, structure–activity elucidation, chemically modified natural compounds with improved biological activity and their synergism with clinically approved drugs. Manuscripts on the biological activity of natural extracts without proper chemical characterization will not be considered.

Dr. Simone Carradori
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Antibiotics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• antibacterial agents
• quorum sensing inhibitors
• food contamination and preservation
• innovative (micro)extraction procedures
• synthetic derivatives inspired by natural scaffolds
• uses of components from medicinal plants and fungi
• biofilm and antimicrobial resistance