Textile industry effluent treatment techniques

T Adane, AT Adugna, E Alemayehu - Journal of Chemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dyes and other chemicals laden wastewater is a main environmental concern for increasing
the textile industries in many parts of the world. Textile industries consume different kinds of …

Quorum quenching: role in nature and applied developments

C Grandclément, M Tannières, S Moréra… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Quorum sensing (QS) refers to the capacity of bacteria to monitor their population density
and regulate gene expression accordingly: the QS-regulated processes deal with …

Plant natural products targeting bacterial virulence factors

LN Silva, KR Zimmer, AJ Macedo, DS Trentin - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Decreased antimicrobial efficiency has become a global public health issue. The paucity of
new antibacterial drugs is evident, and the arsenal against infectious diseases needs to be …

Mechanisms, anti-quorum-sensing actions, and clinical trials of medicinal plant bioactive compounds against bacteria: a comprehensive review

A Bouyahya, I Chamkhi, A Balahbib, M Rebezov… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacterial strains have developed an ability to resist antibiotics via numerous mechanisms.
Recently, researchers conducted several studies to identify natural bioactive compounds …

Current and recent advanced strategies for combating biofilms

M Sadekuzzaman, S Yang… - … Reviews in Food …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Biofilms are matrix‐enclosed microbial aggregates that adhere to a biological or
nonbiological surface. Biofilm formation is a significant problem in the medical, food, and …

New perspectives on the use of phytochemicals as an emergent strategy to control bacterial infections including biofilms

A Borges, AC Abreu, C Dias, MJ Saavedra, F Borges… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
The majority of current infectious diseases are almost untreatable by conventional antibiotic
therapy given the advent of multidrug-resistant bacteria. The degree of severity and the …

Repurposing phytochemicals as anti‐virulent agents to attenuate quorum sensing‐regulated virulence factors and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

J Chadha, K Harjai, S Chhibber - Microbial biotechnology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Unregulated consumption and overexploitation of antibiotics have paved the way for
emergence of antibiotic‐resistant strains and 'superbugs'. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is …

Inhibition of biofilm development of uropathogens by curcumin–an anti-quorum sensing agent from Curcuma longa

IASV Packiavathy, S Priya, SK Pandian, AV Ravi - Food chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Urinary tract infection is caused primarily by the quorum sensing (QS)-dependent biofilm
forming ability of uropathogens. In the present investigation, an anti-quorum sensing (anti …

[HTML][HTML] Phenolic profiles, antioxidant, antiquorum sensing, antibiofilm and enzyme inhibitory activities of selected Acacia species collected from Benin

KY Alain, AN Tamfu, S Kucukaydin, O Ceylan… - LWT, 2022 - Elsevier
Gum arabica is a local commercial nutraceutical and food preservative collected mostly from
acacia plants. HPLC-DAD analysis identified gallic acid, syringic acid, ferulic acid, coumarin …

Antibacterial and antibiofilm mechanism of eugenol against antibiotic resistance Vibrio parahaemolyticus

M Ashrafudoulla, MFR Mizan, AJ Ha, SH Park, SD Ha - Food Microbiology, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to investigate the antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of
eugenol against V. parahaemolyticus planktonic and biofilm cells and the involved …