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In this study, we have investigated the antibacterial activity of five medicinal plant essential oils against UTIs caused by E. coli using disc diffusion and minimal inhibition concentration (MIC) methods. In addition, biofilm inhibitory action of oils was realized by crystal violet. Gas chromatography\u2013mass spectrometry (GC\u2013MS) analysis showed a variability between oils in terms of compound numbers as well as their percentages. Antibacterial activity was observed only in cases of Origanum majorana, Thymus zygis and Rosmarinus officinalis, while Juniperus communis and Zingiber officinale did not showed any effect towards E. coli isolates. T. zygis essential oil demonstrated the highest antibacterial activity against E. coli isolates, followed by O. majorana and R. officinalis. Further, oils showed high biofilm inhibitory action with a percentage of inhibition that ranged from 14.94% to 94.75%. R. officinalis oil had the highest antibiofilm activity followed by T. zygis and O. majorana. Accordingly, tested oils showed very effective antibacterial and antibiofilm activities against E. coli UTIs and can be considered as good alternative for antibiotics substitution.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules24061161","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,25]],"date-time":"2019-03-25T06:56:52Z","timestamp":1553497012000},"page":"1161","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":99,"title":["Antibacterial and Biofilm Inhibitory Activity of Medicinal Plant Essential Oils Against Escherichia coli Isolated from UTI Patients"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Rihab","family":"Lagha","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Taif University, Taif 11099, Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"Unit\u00e9 de Recherche: Virologie &amp; strat\u00e9gies antivirales, Institut Sup\u00e9rieur de Biotechnologie, Monastir University, Monastir 5000, Tunisia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5435-9268","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fethi","family":"Ben Abdallah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Taif University, Taif 11099, Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"Unit\u00e9 de Recherche: Virologie &amp; strat\u00e9gies antivirales, Institut Sup\u00e9rieur de Biotechnologie, Monastir University, Monastir 5000, Tunisia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Badriah Osama","family":"AL-Sarhan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Taif University, Taif 11099, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yassin","family":"Al-Sodany","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Taif University, Taif 11099, Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh 33516, Egypt"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"81","DOI":"10.1017\/S0950268804003048","article-title":"Genetic analysis of antibiotic-resistance determinants in multidrug-resistant Shigella strains isolated from Chilean children","volume":"133","author":"Toro","year":"2005","journal-title":"Epidemiol. 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