Antimicrobial Uses of Nitrogen Heterocycles and Their Metal Complexes—Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 37
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metal complexes; nanomaterials; parasitology; biological applications
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Dear Colleagues,
Organic and inorganic compounds based on nitrogen heterocycles are commonly used biological agents whose use against bacterial, parasitic, or fungal infections has increased in recent decades due to their versatile chemistry and properties improved by their synergistic combination with metals in complexes of coordination. Furthermore, their biocompatibility makes them excellent candidates in the search for new drugs.
This Special Issue aims to compile the most recent works that explore the advances and future perspectives of nitrogen-based molecules and metal complexes in the microbiology of parasites, bacteria, and fungi. Research and review works are welcome, both those that carry out exhaustive studies of the applications of known prodrugs with new uses against species other than the traditional ones, those that develop new materials with biological activity, and any theoretical or practical study on the mechanisms of action of this family of compounds and complexes. The scope of this special issue is the microbial physiology, ecology, and genetics, and the medical, pharmaceutical, industrial, agricultural, food, and environmental microbiology.
Dr. José M. Méndez-Arriaga
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nitrogen
- compounds
- antibacterial
- microbial infection
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