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Infectious diseases are responsible for large-scale morbidity and mortality worldwide. The emergence of multi-drug-resistant pathogens represents one of the greatest challenges modern medicine needs to face. In this context, there is a high demand for greater research efforts to identify new antimicrobial strategies. Plant-based antimicrobials are valuable tools in the fight against pathogens due to their multi-componential nature, which translates into a multi-target activity and constitutes a great advantage compared to the single-target effects of conventional antimicrobials. In addition, synergistic interactions between plant extracts and antimicrobial drugs are promising approaches to improve their efficacy, decrease toxicity, and reverse microbial resistance. Moreover, plant metabolites have served as scaffolds for the synthesis and semi-synthesis of novel antimicrobial drugs.

Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of articles (both original research papers and reviews) that focus on the importance of phytochemicals as antimicrobial agents in human health, food and veterinary medicine, and look to highlight preclinical and clinical findings on plant-based antimicrobials.

Dr. Adriana Trifan
Dr. Izabela Korona-Głowniak
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Keywords

plant products
antimicrobial agents
antibiotic resistance
multi-drug resistance
preclinical (in vitro/in vivo) studies
clinical studies
evidence-based medicine
systematic reviews & meta-analyses

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Antimicrobial and Photocatalytic Activities of Selenium Nanoparticles Synthesized from Elaeagnus indica Leaf Extract

by Dhatchanamoorthi Indhira, Arumugam Aruna, Krishnamoorthy Manikandan, Mohammed F. Albeshr, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei, Ramachandran Vinayagam, Arumugam Kathirvel, Selvaraj Ranjith Priyan, Govindan Suresh Kumar and Ramalingam Srinivasan

Processes 2023, 11(4), 1107; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11041107 - 04 Apr 2023

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Selenium nanoparticles (Se NPs) have recently received much interest due to their low toxicity, high bioavailability, and wide applications. This study synthesized Se NPs using selenious acid as a starting material and leaf extract from Elaeagnus indica as a reducing agent. Spectroscopic and electron microscopy investigations have demonstrated the production of aggregated amorphous Se NPs with phytochemicals. Furthermore, the reduction of selenious acid into Se NPs by phytochemicals present in the leaf extract of E. indica was confirmed in a prominent band at 269 nm in the UV-visible spectrum. The biosynthesized selenium nanoparticles have a 10–15 nm particle size distribution. The agar well diffusion assay exhibited remarkable dose-dependent, wide-spectrum antimicrobial efficacy of the Se NPs against all the tested microorganisms. Moreover, the lowest minimum inhibitory concentration (10 µg/mL) was noted against Salmonella Typhimurium and Fusarium oxysporum. The prepared Se NPs degraded methylene blue dye by about 89% after 6 h of exposure to sunlight. In conclusion, the synthesis of Se NPs using E. indica leaf extract shows promise as a method for producing Se NPs with significant antimicrobial activity and potential for methylene blue photodegradation. These properties make them potentially valuable in various fields, including water treatment and biomedical applications, in the future. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antimicrobials in Plants: From Traditional Medicine to Modern Therapeutic Agents)

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