TABLE 2.

Antibacterial and antifungal activities of FX-containing algae.

Pharmacological effects	Algae species containing FX	Inhibitory activities	Ref
Antibacterial activity	Himanthalia elongate	Inhibits the growth of Listeria monocytogenes bacteria	Rajauria and Abu-Ghannam, (2013)
	Turbinaria triquetra	Inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Abou, (2013)
	Undaria pinnatifida	Inhibits the growth of five human pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus sp., and Pseudomonas aeruginosa)	Zonglin Liu et al. (2019)
	Saccharina japonica, Sargassum horneri	Inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli	Sivagnanam et al. (2015)
	Pavlova lutheri, Isochrysis galbana, Navicula sp., Chaetoceros calcitrans, Dunaliella salina, Thalassiosira sp., Chaetoceros gracilis	Inhibits the growth of Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Peraman and Nachimuthu (2019)
Antifungal activity	Saccharina japonica, Sargassum horneri	Inhibits the growth of Candida albicans, Aspergillus brasiliensis	Sivagnanam et al. (2015)
	Pavlova lutheri, Isochrysis galbana, Navicula sp., Chaetoceros calcitrans, Dunaliella salina, Thalassiosira sp., Chaetoceros gracilis	Inhibits the growth of Aspergillus brasiliensis, Aspergillus fumigatus, Candida albicans	Peraman and Nachimuthu, (2019)