Biotechnological Activities and Applications of Bacterial Pigments Violacein and Prodigiosin

Table 1 Prodigiosin’s antibiotic activity against microorganisms

Microbe	Description	Reference
Bacteria
Bacillus cereus		[23]
Bacillus subtilis		[24]
Enterobacter cloacae		[25]
Escherichia coli		[23, 25] [26]
Klebsiella aerogenes	Human pathogen	[25]
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Human pathogen	[25]
Staphylococcus aureus	Human pathogen	[23, 25,26,27]
Streptococcus pyogenes	Human pathogen	[27]
Fungi
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	Amphibian pathogen	[28]
Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans	Amphibian pathogen	[28]
Botrytis cinerea	Plant pathogen	[29]
Fusarium oxysporum	Plant pathogen	[30]
Mucor irregularis	Human pathogen	[31]
Mycosphaerella fijiensis	Plant pathogen	[32]
Phytophthora infestans	Plant pathogen	[30]
Pythium myriotylum	Plant pathogen	[30]
Rhizoctonia solani	Plant pathogen	[30, 33]
Sclerotium rolfsii	Plant pathogen	[30]
Virus
HSV-1	Herpes	[34]
Protozoa
Plasmodium falciparum	Malaria	[35, 36]
Trypanosoma cruzi	Parasitic euglenoids	[37]
Insect
Aedes aegypti	Yellow fever mosquito	[38]
Anopheles stephensi	Malaria vector	[38]

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