Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components

ISBN-13: 9780123985392 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 296 str.

Mahendra Rai

Opis

Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and their Components offers scientists a single source aimed at fighting specific multidrug-resistant (MDR) microorganisms such as bacteria, protozoans, viruses and fungi using natural products. This essential reference discusses herbal extracts and essential oils used or under investigation to treat MDR infections, as well as those containing antimicrobial activity that could be of potential interest in future studies against MDR microorganisms. The need to combat multidrug-resistant microorganisms is an urgent one and this book provides important coverage of mechanism of action, the advantages and disadvantages of using herbal extracts, essential oils and their components and more to aid researchers in effective antimicrobial drug discovery

• Addresses the need to develop safe and effective approaches to coping with resistance to all classes of antimicrobial drugs
• Provides readers with current evidence-based content aimed at using herbal extracts and essential oils in antimicrobial drug development
• Includes chapters devoted to the activity of herbal products against herpes, AIDS, tuberculosis, drug-resistant cancer cells and more

Recenzje

"The book is well organized and its 17 chapters cover a host of topics, from basic mechanisms of multidrug resistance to specific plant genera.and select phytochemicals that offer promise.For researchers interested in the current status of phytochemicals for treating multidrug-resistant microorganisms, this book is an invaluable resource." --HerbalGram, Spring 2014

Spis treści

Preface1 Alternative antimicrobial approaches to fighting multidrug-resistant infections2 Natural agents from plants used against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus3 Bioactivity of plant constituents against vancomycin-resistant enterococci4 The use of natural products as an alternative against Candida species resistant to conventional chemotherapeutics5 Use of plants in the search for drugs to treat tuberculosis6 Use of essential oils and their components against multidrug-resistant bacteria7 Natural products and their perspectives in developing new leishmanicidal molecules8 Natural products with activity against Schistosoma species9 Botanical as adjunct therapy and treatment for multidrug-resistant staphylococcal infections10 Combining essential oils with antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents as a way of coping with multidrug-resistant bacteria11 Antimicrobial potential of some medicinal plants and their synergistic property: an alternative source to fight against multidrug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms12 Perspectives and key factors on the usage of herbal extracts against multidrug-resistant gram-negative microorganisms13 Use of plant-derived extracts and bioactive compound mixtures against multidrug-resistant bacteria affecting animal health and production14 Essential oils from Compositae family against multidrug-resistant bacteria15 Harnessing traditional knowledge in the management of multidrug-resistance and prevention of emerging infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa16 Natural products with activity against multidrug-resistant tumor cells17 Development of new antiherpetic drugs based on plant extracts: a review