Table 5.

The pathogens related infection inhibited by phenolics.

Compounds	Anti-bacterial activity	Pathogen-related infection
7- hydroxy-3′,4′ flavone	Candida albicans Cushnie and Lamb, 2005	Gastrointerinal infection Remichkova et al., 2009; Glittenberg et al., 2011; Song et al., 2011
40-Methoxy flavone	Trichophyton rubrum Lopes et al., 2017	Skin infection Salmon and Fuller, 2013
5,7-dihydroxy-3,8-dimethoxy flavone	Staphylococcus species Tomás-Barberán et al., 1990; Li et al., 2014	Gastrointestinal infection Yano et al., 2000; Boyce et al., 2005
Flavone	Escherichia coil Li et al., 2014	Gastrointestinal infection Salyers and Whitt, 1994
2′-Hydroxyflavanone	Clostridium difficile Wu et al., 2014	Gastrointestinal infection Gweon et al., 2016; Khanna and Pardi, 2016; Kim et al., 2016; Furuya-Kanamori et al., 2017
5,7-dihydroxy-8-methoxyflavone	Proponbacterium acnes Tsai et al., 2015	Surgery infection Nodzo et al., 2014
Flavonoids	Aeromonas species Rattanachaikunsopon and Phumkhachorn, 2007	Gastrointestinal infection Kirov et al., 2000
Flavonoids	Proteus species Kumar and Pandey, 2013	Urinary tract infection Armbruster et al., 2017
Flavonoids	Klebsiella species Singh and Kumar, 2014	Gastrointestinal colonization Mayhall et al., 1980
Flavonoids	Salmonella species Abdallah and Al-Harbi, 2015	Gastrointestinal infection Nimir et al., 2009; Eguale et al., 2015
Flavonoids	Campylobacter species Campana et al., 2009	Gastrointestinal infection Nachamkin and Yang, 1992; Locht and Krogfelt, 2002