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cord-017131-rx1z4orm	Patra, Amlan Kumar	An Overview of Antimicrobial Properties of Different Classes of Phytochemicals	2012-02-18		.txt	text/plain	10500	571	40	Although numerous studies have been conducted in vitro and in vivo in the recent years on the efficacy of plant phytochemicals as antimicrobial agents, this chapter provides an overview of the antimicrobial properties of some major group of phytochemicals, namely, different phenolic compounds, alkaloids, saponins, iridoids and secoiridoids, polyacetylenes, glucosinolates, terpenoids, sulfinate, limonoids (tetranortepenoids) and anthranoids against pathogenic bacteria, fungi, viruses and commensal bacteria in the intestinal tracts of humans and animals. This chapter also discusses their antimicrobial mechanisms of action, the efficiency of different groups of phytochemicals against multiple-drug resistant bacteria, the effect of active dietary phytometabolites on the beneficial and pathogenic microbes of the gastrointestinal tracts and the outcomes of combination of phytofactors and drugs interactions. Although, phenolic acids are effective against Gram-negative bacteria, their antimicrobial effect is strain dependent (e.g. different strains of Escherichia coli ; Cueva et al.	./cache/cord-017131-rx1z4orm.txt	./txt/cord-017131-rx1z4orm.txt