Antimicrobial resistance: a growing serious threat for global public health

MA Salam, MY Al-Amin, MT Salam, JS Pawar, N Akhter… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics are among the most important discoveries of the 20th century, having saved
millions of lives from infectious diseases. Microbes have developed acquired antimicrobial …

Towards advances in medicinal plant antimicrobial activity: A review study on challenges and future perspectives

N Vaou, E Stavropoulou, C Voidarou, C Tsigalou… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens raises an urgent need to identify and
isolate new bioactive compounds from medicinal plants using standardized modern …

Metal‐based nanomaterials in biomedical applications: antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity aspects

P Makvandi, C Wang, EN Zare… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial colonization on material surfaces is ubiquitous. Biofilms derived from surface‐
colonized microbes pose serious problems to the society from both an economical …

Review on plant antimicrobials: a mechanistic viewpoint

B Khameneh, M Iranshahy, V Soheili… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2019 - Springer
Microbial resistance to classical antibiotics and its rapid progression have raised serious
concern in the treatment of infectious diseases. Recently, many studies have been directed …

Antimicrobial resistance, mechanisms and its clinical significance

MA Abushaheen, AJ Fatani, M Alosaimi, W Mansy… - Disease-a-Month, 2020 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial agents play a key role in controlling and curing infectious disease. Soon after
the discovery of the first antibiotic, the challenge of antibiotic resistance commenced …

Origin of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance, and their impacts on drug development: A narrative review

G Muteeb, MT Rehman, M Shahwan, M Aatif - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics have revolutionized medicine, saving countless lives since their discovery in the
early 20th century. However, the origin of antibiotics is now overshadowed by the alarming …

Antibacterial activity of flavonoids and their structure–activity relationship: An update review

F Farhadi, B Khameneh, M Iranshahi… - Phytotherapy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Based on World Health Organization reports, resistance of bacteria to well‐known antibiotics
is a major global health challenge now and in the future. Different strategies have been …

Nano-strategies to fight multidrug resistant bacteria—“A Battle of the Titans”

PV Baptista, MP McCusker, A Carvalho… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Infectious diseases remain one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
The WHO and CDC have expressed serious concern regarding the continued increase in …

[HTML][HTML] Essential oils and their nanoemulsions as green alternatives to antibiotics in poultry nutrition: a comprehensive review

ME Abd El-Hack, MT El-Saadony, AM Saad, HM Salem… - Poultry science, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing market pressure to reduce the use of antibiotics and the Veterinary Feed
Directive of 2019 have led to expanded research on alternate antibiotic solutions. This …

The antimicrobial activity of nanoparticles: present situation and prospects for the future

L Wang, C Hu, L Shao - International journal of nanomedicine, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nanoparticles (NPs) are increasingly used to target bacteria as an alternative to antibiotics.
Nanotechnology may be particularly advantageous in treating bacterial infections. Examples …