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Medicinal plants and antimicrobial activity.
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The past, present and future of medicinal plants are analyzed, both as potential antimicrobial crude drugs as well as a source for natural compounds that act as new anti-infection agents.About:
This article is published in Journal of Ethnopharmacology.The article was published on 2005-08-22. It has received 1665 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Antimicrobial & Medicinal plants.read more
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Anti-infective potential of natural products: how to develop a stronger in vitro 'proof-of-concept'.
TL;DR: This review provides a number of recommendations that will help to define a more sound 'proof-of-concept' for antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and antiparasitic potential in natural products.
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Recent advances in understanding the antibacterial properties of flavonoids
T.P. Tim Cushnie,Andrew J. Lamb +1 more
TL;DR: Flavonoids are a family of plant-derived compounds with potentially exploitable activities, including direct antibacterial activity, synergism with antibiotics, and suppression of bacterial virulence, and recent advances towards understanding these properties are described.
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Antifungal activity of the clove essential oil from Syzygium aromaticum on Candida, Aspergillus and dermatophyte species
TL;DR: It is indicated that clove oil and eugenol have considerable antifungal activity against clinically relevant fungi, including fluconazole-resistant strains, deserving further investigation for clinical application in the treatment of fungal infections.
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Potential antimicrobial uses of essential oils in food: is citrus the answer?
Katie Fisher,Carol A Phillips +1 more
TL;DR: C citrus oils not only lend themselves to use in food but also are generally recognised as safe (GRAS) and have been found to be inhibitory both in direct oil and vapour form against a range of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
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Potential of Cameroonian plants and derived products against microbial infections: a review.
TL;DR: Many plant species are used in traditional medicine in Cameroon to treat infectious diseases, and several interesting openings have originated for further inquiry following IN VITRO antimicrobial activity evaluation.
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Antibacterial and antifungal properties of essential oils.
Danuta Kalemba,A. Kunicka +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviews the classical methods commonly used for the evaluation of essential oils antibacterial and antifungal activities and finds essential oils of spices and herbs were found to possess the strongest antimicrobial properties among many tested.
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Extraction methods and bioautography for evaluation of medicinal plant antimicrobial activity
TL;DR: A comparative study on the antimicrobial properties of extracts from medicinal plants obtained by two different methods indicated that the diethyl ether extracts were the most efficient antimicrobial compounds.
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Screening methods for natural products with antimicrobial activity: a review of the literature.
TL;DR: All the various techniques are reviewed here and, in order to unify the different criteria and parameters, standard methods to study the antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants are proposed.
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Synergy in a medicinal plant: antimicrobial action of berberine potentiated by 5′-methoxyhydnocarpin, a multidrug pump inhibitor.
TL;DR: The level of accumulation of berberine in the cells was increased strongly in the presence of 5'-MHC, indicating that this plant compound effectively disabled the bacterial resistance mechanism against the berberines antimicrobial.
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Anti-Candida activity of Brazilian medicinal plants
Marta Cristina Teixeira Duarte,Glyn Mara Figueira,Adilson Sartoratto,Vera Lúcia Garcia Rehder,Camila Delarmelina +4 more
TL;DR: Essential oils and ethanolic extracts from the leaves and/or roots of 35 medicinal plants commonly used in Brazil were screened for anti-Candida albicans activity and chemical analyses showed the presence of compounds with known antimicrobial activity.