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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Microbiol. 2017 Jul 5;25(12):1016–1026. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2017.06.003

Table 1.

Antibiotics that impact biofilm formation that are mentioned in this paper.

Compound Source Compound Bacterial species effected Reference

Amphibian skin Dermaseptin S4 derivative Pseudomonas fluorescens 67

Bacteria 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol Bacillus subtilis 21

Bacteria Biosurfactants Acinetobacter baumannii 53
Escherichia coli
Staphylococcus aureus

Bacteria Biosurfactants putisolvins I and II Pseudomonas spp. 52

Bacteria Polymyxin B Vibrio cholerae 59

Bacteria Subtilosin Gardnerella vaginalis 65, 64

Bacteria Surfactin B. subtilis 18
Nystatin

Bacteria Tetracycline Staphylococcus epidermidis 55

Bacteria Thiocillin B. subtilis 20
Various thiazolyl peptides

Bacteria Tobramycin E. coli 41
Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Bacteria/semisynthetic Carbapenem Klebsiella pneumoniae 51

Bacteria/synthetic Ampicillin Streptococcus intermedius 63
Ciprofloxacin
Tetracycline

Human Defence peptide LL-37 S. aureus 57
P. aeruginosa

Lichen Usnic Acid P. aeruginosa 54
S. aureus

Marine algae Furanone E. coli 48, 62, 60
P. aeruginosa
S. aureus
S. epidermidis

Semisynthetic Ampicillin S. aureus 50
Amoxicillin
Cloxacillin
Methicillin

Semisynthetic Azithromycin P. aeruginosa 4447

Synthetic Peptide 1037 P. aeruginosa 58
Burkholderia cenocepacia
Listeria monocytogenes