Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 11. Medicinal Plants as Alternative Sources of Therapeutics...

Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 11. Medicinal Plants as Alternative Sources of Therapeutics...
ISBN-10
0128066822
ISBN-13
9780128066829
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
Mital J. Kaneria, Kalpna D. Rakholiya, Sumitra V. Chanda

Description

Antibiotics are antimicrobial agents that are used to treat infectious diseases. The outbreak of pathogenic antibiotic-resistant strains illustrates our urgent need to search for new alternative sources of treatment. Hence, an attempt has been made in this review to list some plant extracts, essential/volatile oils, and their antimicrobial activity against different microorganisms using different methods, as well as synergistic effects (plant extract-plant extract, plant extract-essential oils, plant extract-conventional antibiotics, phytochemical-antibiotics, and essential oil-essential oil). Plant products and their active constituents are useful in the treatment of infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant microbes, food borne diseases caused by food spoiling microbes, and oral pathogens. Products derived from plants have the potential to control microbial growth in diverse situations, and specifically in the treatment of disease. The various aspects of this review may be helpful for the food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries.

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