Antimicrobial natural products against bacterial biofilms.

BEOLETTO, V; OLIVA, M.M.; J.M. MARIOLI; M.E. CAREZZANO; M.S. DEMO

Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms and New Antimicrobial Approaches.

Elsevier

Año: 2016; p. 291 - 307

Nowadays, the continual appearance of bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become the major problem that scientists have to deal with. Pathogenic Microorganisms responsible for human, animal, and plant diseases are acquiring resistance due to the inadequate use of antimicrobial drugs.The indiscriminate prescription of antibiotics creates selective pressure for the emergence of resistant strains, resulting in a growing problem. There is an urgent need to discover novel classes of antimicrobial substances unable to generate resistance that can effectively work on a target site or in different target sites of the cell. In this way, plants constitute natural sources with potentialtherapeutic or medicinal values that have been successfully used as alternative treatments to solve health ailments.