Microbial oddities such as versatile pigments are gaining more attention in current research
due to their widely perceived applications as natural food colorants, textiles, antimicrobial …

Pigments are among the most fascinating molecules found in nature and used by human
civilizations since the prehistoric ages. Although most of the bio-dyes reported in the …

Microbial pigments play multiple roles in the ecosystem construction, survival, and fitness of
all kinds of organisms. Considerably, microbial (bacteria, fungi, yeast, and microalgae) …

Prodigiosin is a natural red pigment derived primarily from secondary metabolites of
microorganisms, especially Serratia marcescens. It can also be chemically synthesized …

In this review, we discuss violacein and prodigiosin, two chromogenic bacterial secondary
metabolites that have diverse biological activities. Although both compounds were …

The Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which infect blood-
feeding triatomine bugs to finally reach mammal hosts. Chagas disease is endemic in Latin …

Chagas disease is one of the most important tropical infections in the world and mainly
affects poor people. The causative agent is the hemoflagellate protozoan Trypanosoma …

The growing demand to fulfill the needs of present-day medicine in terms of novel effective
molecules has lead to reexamining some of the old and known bacterial secondary …

Found widespread around the globe, Serratia are Gram-negative bacteria capable of
thriving in a diverse number of environments that include water, soil, and the digestive tracts …

Disease-transmitting vectors are living organisms that pass infectious agents from one
animal/human to another. The epidemiologically important vectors are usually …