Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 6. Use of Essential Oils and Their Components...

Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 6. Use of Essential Oils and Their Components...
ISBN-10
0128066776
ISBN-13
9780128066775
Series
Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components
Category
Medical
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2013-05-24
Publisher
Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Authors
M.L. Faleiro, M.G. Miguel

Description

Aromatic and medicinal plants, through their secondary metabolism, provide a complex mixture of volatile molecules known as essential oils. These volatile molecules exert antibacterial activity that has been used in folk medicine for centuries. During the last few decades, the emergence of antibacterial resistance has forced us to search for new and efficient antimicrobial agents. The significant number of studies on the use of essential oils and their components against multidrug-resistant bacteria, such as Acinetobacter baumannii, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa show the exceptional potential of these natural products to curb the development of antibacterial resistance. Moreover, the use of essential oils and their components in combination with antibiotics may increase bacterial susceptibility, thus limiting resistance.

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