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Table 1. Growth inhibition area of the compounds 4, 6, 8, and 11 at 10 mg/mL by the agar well diffusion method against Gram-positive, Gram-negative bacteria, and yeast strains

Compound	Zone of inhibition/mm
Compound	*S. aureus*	*S. epidermidis*	*M. smegmatis*	*P. aeruginosa*	*S. cerevisiae*	*C. albicans*
4	n.a.	7	n.a.	n.a.	7	n.a.
6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	8	n.a.
8	6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	8	n.a.
11	15	12	n.a.	n.a.	9	n.a.
Positive control	VAN 26	VAN 27	RIF 48	NOR 33	NYS 31	NYS 29

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n.a.: not active; NOR: norfloxacin; NYS: nystatin; RIF: rifampicin

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LMTF: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. PR: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing—review & editing. MLSC: Supervision, Funding acquisition, Writing—review & editing. BECG and ICCC: Investigation, Methodology. VMSI: Methodology, Formal analysis. LS, BGN, MM, and CC: Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis.

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This work was partially supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal, via Strategic Projects [UIDB/00100/2020, UIDP/00100/2020 (CQE), LA/P/0056/2020 (IMS), UIDB/04326/2020, UIDP/04326/2020, LA/P/0101/2020 (CCMAR), UIDB/04539/2020, UIDP/04539/2020, LA/P/0058/2020 (CIBB), UIDB/04567/2020, UIDP/04567/2020 (CBIOS)]. Funds from operational programs CRESC Algarve 2020 and COMPETE 2020 through project EMBRC.PT [ALG-01-0145-FEDER-022121] are object of acknowledgement. LMTF expresses gratitude to FCT for the work contract nº IST-ID/115/2018. ICCC and MM thank FCT for the PhD grants [SFRH/BD/08242/2020, SFRH/BD/146441/2019], respectively. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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