Partnering essential oils with antibiotics: proven therapies against bovine Staphylococcus aureus mastitis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is an urgent need to develop therapeutic options for biofilm-producing Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). Therefore, the renewed interest in essential oils (EOs), especially carvacrol, linalool and eugenol, has attracted the attention of our research group.

Methods

Multidrug resistance and multivirulence profiles in addition to biofilm production of S. aureus strains isolated from cows with mastitis were evaluated using both phenotypic and genotypic methods. The antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of EOs were tested using both in vitro and molecular docking studies. Moreover, the interactions between commonly used antibiotics and the tested EOs were detected using the checkerboard method.

Results

We found that all our isolates (n= 37) were biof

SUBMITTER: Abd El-Hamid MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10542579 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature