**6. Conclusion**

Combatting biofilm and quorum sensing is a good strategy to reduce microbial pathogenicity and thus fight infections. This can be achieved by finding effective agents that can inhibit biofilm formation and disrupt quorum sensing mechanisms. Natural products particularly medicinal plants are a rich source of bioactive compounds that have served as useful leads in the development of drugs. Rigorous evaluation of medicinal plants can therefore lead to novel anti-biofilm and antiquorum sensing agents.

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Yaw Duah Boakye3

Ghana

Kumasi, Ghana

Cynthia Amaning Danquah1

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*Combating Biofilm and Quorum Sensing: A New Strategy to Fight Infections*

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1 Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,

2 Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi,

Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

3 Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy and

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