Abstract
Mushrooms have an acclaimed history of therapeutic use in traditional medicine. The prevalent occurrence of infectious diseases is becoming a worldwide problem, due to bacterial resistance against antimicrobial drugs which have been long used for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. For this reason, the search has intensified for natural sources with antimicrobial activity. The literature contains scientific data about the high antimicrobial activity of mushrooms against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial species. In this review we have focused on compounds obtained from mushrooms which exhibit antimicrobial activity, commonly used methods for evaluation of antimicrobial activity and last but not least on syntheses of some selected compounds originally isolated from mushrooms.
Keywords: Mushrooms, extracts, antimicrobial activity, synthesis, MIC.
Current Organic Chemistry
Title:Mushrooms as the Source of Potential Antimicrobial Agents: A Review
Volume: 20 Issue: 24
Author(s): Zdenka Bedlovicova, Miroslava Smrcova, Imrich Strapac and Zuzana Steffeková
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Keywords: Mushrooms, extracts, antimicrobial activity, synthesis, MIC.
Abstract: Mushrooms have an acclaimed history of therapeutic use in traditional medicine. The prevalent occurrence of infectious diseases is becoming a worldwide problem, due to bacterial resistance against antimicrobial drugs which have been long used for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. For this reason, the search has intensified for natural sources with antimicrobial activity. The literature contains scientific data about the high antimicrobial activity of mushrooms against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial species. In this review we have focused on compounds obtained from mushrooms which exhibit antimicrobial activity, commonly used methods for evaluation of antimicrobial activity and last but not least on syntheses of some selected compounds originally isolated from mushrooms.
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Bedlovicova Zdenka, Smrcova Miroslava, Strapac Imrich and Steffeková Zuzana, Mushrooms as the Source of Potential Antimicrobial Agents: A Review, Current Organic Chemistry 2016; 20 (24) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1385272820666160608101058
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1385272820666160608101058 |
Print ISSN 1385-2728 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
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