“…8-hydroxyquinoline (HQ) is a well-studied, privileged structure, with activity against a wide range of cell types (Prachayasittikul, Prachayasittikul, Ruchirawat, & Prachayasittikul, 2013;Song, Xu, Chen, Zhan, & Liu, 2015), including anticancer activity (Barilli et al, 2014;Bhat, Shim, Zhang, Chong, & Liu, 2012;Chang, Chen, Wang, Tzeng, & Chen, 2010;Feng et al, 2015;Li et al, 2016;Moret et al, 2009;Mrozek-Wilczkiewicz et al, 2015;Sosi c et al, 2013;Spaczy nska, Tabak, Malarz, & Musiol, 2014), antifungal activity (Cieslik et al, 2012;Musiol et al, 2006), and antibacterial activity (Warner, Musto, Turesky, & Soloway, 1975). The HQ are active against several bacterial species including Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis (Abouelhassan et al, 2014(Abouelhassan et al, , 2015Basak et al, 2016;Garrison et al, 2017;Lam et al, 2014), Enterococcus faecium (Basak et al, 2016;Garrison et al, 2017), Burkholderia pseudomallei (Wangtrakuldee et al, 2013), Neisseria gonorrhoeae, (Lawung et al, 2018), Listeria monocytogenes (Cherdtrakulkiat et al, 2016), and Mycobacterium avium (Hongmanee, Rukseree, Buabut, Somsri, & Palittapongarnpim, 2007;Kos et al, 2015).…”