In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Products Using Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations: Looking for New Chemical Entities or Predicting Clinical Response

In previous comments, the difficulties and technical problems of selectivity criteria was exposed related to the antimicrobial activity of extracts plants and pure compounds based in MICs, opening an interesting discussion about this topic. In this way, this commentary seeks to give more elements that feed the proposed debate.

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