Antibacterial, Antiviral and Antifungal Activities of Lipids

Lipids and Essential Oils as Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 47-80

  Bergsson, Gudmundur ^a   Hilmarsson, Hilmar ^b   Thormar, Halldor ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Activities against Gram negative bacteria in vitro; Antibacterial mechanism; Antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activities of lipids; Antifungal activities of fatty acids and monoglycerides; Antimicrobial lipids, widespread in nature in plants and animals, acting as potent antiinflammatory and antimicrobial effector molecules; Effect of glycerides of fatty acids on Gram negative bacteria; Lipids, disrupting cellular membranes in bacterial cells, Gram negative and Gram positive; Long chain polyunsaturated arachidonic acid killing Gram negative bacteria, Neisseria and Haemophilus spp; Role of antimicrobial lipids in host defence against bacteria; Spectrum of activity of monoglycerides narrower compared to free fatty acids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886221384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470976623.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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