Antimicrobial Activities of Medicinal Plants and Their Formulations
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant-Derived Antibiotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 102
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioeconomy; natural products; phytochemistry; green chemistry; sustainability
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Interests: pharmaceutical technology; nanotechnology; natural products; essential oils
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Faced with the alarmingly increasing antimicrobial resistance against the existing agents, the search within the diverse natural repository of bioactive compounds offers a glimmer of hope in plant extracts. Pharmaceutical technologies enhancing bioactivity and developing novel formulations stand as the final frontier in humanity's ongoing battle against microorganisms. This Special Issue of Antibiotics is dedicated to studies aiming to discover new bioactive chemical entities from plant extracts, scouring nature for clues wherever an extract may bring a known substance with new properties or even exhibit synergistic effects observed in extracts or fractions. All the efforts directed toward ensuring the potentiation of bioactives in formulations, whether solid, semi-solid, liquid or aerosol, including all technological strategies such as nanoencapsulation and complexation with cyclodextrins, applicable across cosmetics, food and drug development, for example, are within the scope of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Valdir Florencio Da Veiga Junior
Prof. Dr. Letícia Scherer Koester
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial
- natural products
- medicinal plants
- bioactive plant extracts
- phytochemistry
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