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Citrus Essential Oils: a Treasure Trove of Antibiofilm Agent

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Biofilms are groups of adherent cell communities that cohere to the biotic and abiotic surfaces with the help of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). EPS allow bacteria to form a biofilm that facilitates their binding to biotic and abiotic surfaces and provides resistance to the host immune responses and to antibiotics. There are efforts that have led to the development of natural compounds that can overcome this biofilm-mediated resistance. Essential oils (EOs) are a unique mixture of compounds that plays a key role in preventing the development of biofilm. The present overview focusses on the role of various types of citrus essential oils in acting against the biofilm, and the antibiofilm properties of natural compounds that may show an avenue to treat the multidrug-resistant bacteria.

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  2. Department of Biotechnology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Ankita Dey & Rina Rani Ray

  3. Department of Life Sciences, SBSR, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  4. Oil & Gas Research Center, Central Analytical and Applied Research Unit, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Sanket Joshi

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Lahiri, D., Nag, M., Dey, A. et al. Citrus Essential Oils: a Treasure Trove of Antibiofilm Agent. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 194, 4625–4638 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-022-04033-0

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