a Department of Food Science and Postharvest Technology , Bihar Agricultural University , Sabour, Bhagalpur , Bihar , India.
b Department of Spices and Plantation Crops , Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya , Mohanpur, Nadia, Kalyani , West Bengal , India.
Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2016 Jul 3;56(9):1428-39. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2013.769932.
Tea has recently received the attention of pharmaceutical and scientific communities due to the plethora of natural therapeutic compounds. As a result, numerous researches have been published in a bid to validate their biological activity. Moreover, major attention has been drawn to antimicrobial activities of tea. Being rich in phenolic compounds, tea has the preventive potential for colon, esophageal, and lung cancers, as well as urinary infections and dental caries, among others. The venture of this review was to illustrate the emerging findings on the antimicrobial properties of different teas and tea extracts, which have been obtained from several in vitro studies investigating the effects of these extracts against different microorganisms. Resistance to antimicrobial agents has become an increasingly important and urgent global problem. The extracts of tea origin as antimicrobial agents with new mechanisms of resistance would serve an alternative way of antimicrobial chemotherapy targeting the inhibition of microbial growth and the spread of antibiotic resistance with potential use in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries.
由于天然治疗化合物的大量存在，茶最近引起了制药和科学界的关注。因此，已经发表了许多研究来验证它们的生物活性。此外，人们对茶的抗菌活性给予了极大的关注。由于富含酚类化合物，茶具有预防结肠癌、食管癌、肺癌以及尿路感染和龋齿等疾病的潜力。本综述的目的是阐述不同茶叶和茶提取物的抗菌特性的新发现，这些提取物是从几项研究中获得的，这些研究调查了这些提取物对不同微生物的影响。抗菌药物耐药性已成为一个日益重要和紧迫的全球性问题。具有新耐药机制的茶提取物作为抗菌药物，可能成为抑制微生物生长和传播抗生素耐药性的抗菌化疗的替代方法，具有在制药、化妆品和食品工业中的潜在用途。
