Phytochemical Compounds as Antibacterial Agents A Mini Review

Alaa MM Sadeek and Emad M Abdallah
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Emad M Abdallah: College of Sciences and Arts at Al-Rass,

Global Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2019, vol. 7, issue 4, 131-136

Abstract: Phytochemicals are secondary metabolites mostly produced by higher plants to enable them to survive under various biotic and abiotic stresses. Scientific reports exhibited that these natural compounds have direct and indirect effects on human, animal, fungal and bacterial physiology. Among them, the ability of some phytochemical compounds to suppress or eradicate the pathogenic bacteria with various mode of actions such as phenolic compounds, alkaloids, terpenoids, carotenoids, and some sulfur-containing phytochemicals. Such phytochemical molecules are suggested to meet the urgent need for new antibacterial drugs to overcome the growing phenomenon of the emergence of multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens. This mini review aimed to demonstrate the recent reports on some phytochemical molecules which showed potent antibacterial activity and may help future researchers working on innovation of new antibacterial drugs with a different mode of action to control the crisis of antibiotics resistant pathogens.

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Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.19080/GJPPS.2019.07.555720

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