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Compuestos antimicrobianos de origen natural:
enfermedades infecciosas resistentes a antibióticos
Title: Compuestos antimicrobianos de origen natural:
enfermedades infecciosas resistentes a antibióticos |
Authors: Álvarez-Martínez, Francisco Javier  |
Tutor: Micol Molina, Vicente Barrajón-Catalán, Enrique |
Editor: Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche |
Department: Departamentos de la UMH::Bioquímica y Biología Molecular |
Issue Date: 2021-05-25 |
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11000/27472 |
Abstract:
La presente Tesis Doctoral nace de la urgente necesidad de hallar nuevos agentes
antimicrobianos eficaces como consecuencia del auge de los microorganismos resistentes a
antibióticos que causan infecciones cada vez más graves y difíciles de tratar en todo el planeta.
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This Doctoral Thesis arises from the urgent need to find new effective antimicrobial agents
because of the rise of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms that cause increasingly serious and
difficult-to-treat infections throughout the planet. This work describes and deepens the
antimicrobial capacity of compounds of natural origin as a tool for the development of
alternative or complementary antibiotic therapies to those that currently exist. This Doctoral
Thesis is structured as a compendium of three scientific articles published in high impact index
journals belonging to the first quartile (Q1), each corresponding to a chapter.
Chapter 1 studies the antibacterial capacity of plant polyphenols against bacteria of clinical
interest, focusing especially on Staphylococcus aureus and its antibiotic resistant strains.
Furthermore, it includes a virtual screening of polyphenolic molecules against bacterial
molecular targets related to antibiotic resistance. This chapter highlights the enormous
therapeutic potential of phytochemicals as antimicrobials and lays the bibliographic basis for
the following in vitro studies developed in the next chapter.
Chapter 2 describes the screening process of various potentially antimicrobial phytochemicals
against eleven bacterial species extracted from patient samples of the Alicante University
General Hospital. The results obtained point to the fact that the two selected plant extracts
have antimicrobial activity and have different mechanisms of action. Likewise, it is observed
that the level of bacterial susceptibility to the action of the extracts can be correlated with its
resistance profile to antibiotics of clinical use. A differential antibacterial activity is shown
against S. aureus isolates according to their antibiotic resistance profile and the polyphenolic
composition of the extracts, an observation that could lead to the development of
combinatorial therapies that include antibiotics and plant extracts.
Chapter 3 consists of an extension of the spectrum of study of natural antimicrobial
compounds, going on to study 68 different compounds from animal, bacterial and fungal
sources in addition to the plants described up to now. This chapter includes the main
molecular targets and proposed antimicrobial mechanism of action for each compound
reviewed. The field of natural antimicrobial compounds is vast, and its trend is increasing.
Technological and scientific advancement allows the identification and rediscovery of
promising natural compounds to combat human infections, including those resistant to
antibiotics.
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Keywords/Subjects: Biología Molecular Microorganismos Antibióticos |
Knowledge area: CDU: Ciencias puras y naturales: Biología: Biología celular y subcelular. Citología CDU: Ciencias puras y naturales: Biología: Bioquímica. Biología molecular. Biofísica |
Type of document: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
Access rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
Appears in Collections: Tesis doctorales - Ciencias e Ingenierías
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