Publications by authors named "Vania Delfino"
Article Synopsis
- - Medicinal plants are key in discovering new antimicrobial compounds due to their pharmacological properties, while their associated microbiota can also produce bioactive molecules that promote plant growth and help with bioremediation.
- - This study focused on characterizing an endophytic strain, sp. OVS8, isolated from the medicinal plant L., to assess its adaptation and influence on the plant's internal microenvironments as well as its potential to produce antibacterial volatile molecules (VOCs).
- - Findings reveal that sp. OVS8 can produce volatile antimicrobials effective against multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens and has beneficial roles in promoting plant growth and degrading pollutants, highlighting its potential for developing new antibiotic sources.
Rising number of multidrug-resistant human pathogens demands novel antibiotics: to this aim, unexplored natural sources are investigated to find new compounds. In this context, bacteria associated to medicinal plants, including , might represent an important source of antimicrobial compounds. In the present work, 21 bacterial endophytes isolated from roots were tested, by cross-streaking, for their inhibitory activity against 36 multidrug-resistant pathogens isolated from food, clinical patients and hospitals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe insurgence of antibiotic resistance and emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens prioritize research to discover new antimicrobials. In this context, medicinal plants produce bioactive compounds of pharmacological interest: some extracts have antimicrobial properties that can contrast different pathogens. For such a purpose, L.
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