A Review on Antibacterial, Antiviral, and Antifungal Activity of Curcumin | Zendy

Soheil Zorofchian Moghadamtousi | Zendy; Habsah Abdul Kadir | Zendy; Pouya Hassandarvish | Zendy; Hassan Tajik | Zendy; Sazaly AbuBakar | Zendy; Keivan Zandi | Zendy

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A Review on Antibacterial, Antiviral, and Antifungal Activity of Curcumin

Author(s) -

Soheil Zorofchian Moghadamtousi,

Habsah Abdul Kadir,

Pouya Hassandarvish,

Hassan Tajik,

Sazaly AbuBakar,

Keivan Zandi

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

biomed research international

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772

H-Index - 126

eISSN - 2314-6141

pISSN - 2314-6133

DOI - 10.1155/2014/186864

Subject(s) - curcumin , antimicrobial , curcuma , zingiberaceae , antifungal , polyphenol , traditional medicine , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , rhizome , pharmacology , medicine , antioxidant , biochemistry

Curcuma longa L. (Zingiberaceae family) and its polyphenolic compound curcumin have been subjected to a variety of antimicrobial investigations due to extensive traditional uses and low side effects. Antimicrobial activities for curcumin and rhizome extract of C. longa against different bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites have been reported. The promising results for antimicrobial activity of curcumin made it a good candidate to enhance the inhibitory effect of existing antimicrobial agents through synergism. Indeed, different investigations have been done to increase the antimicrobial activity of curcumin, including synthesis of different chemical derivatives to increase its water solubility as well ass cell up take of curcumin. This review aims to summarize previous antimicrobial studies of curcumin towards its application in the future studies as a natural antimicrobial agent.

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