Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 12. Perspectives and Key Factors Affecting the Use...

Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 12. Perspectives and Key Factors Affecting the Use...
ISBN-10
0128066830
ISBN-13
9780128066836
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
Ali Parsaeimehr, Elmira Sargsyan, Amir Reza Jassbi

Description

In today’s world, multidrug resistance appears to be one of the major health problems; however, screening, discovering and presenting novel effectual phytochemicals from medicinal plants have provided a promising outlook. Phytomedicines have been used for treating diseases and infections since time immemorial, but identifying new phytochemicals and effectual treatment strategies are essential in the fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Currently, isolated compounds such as α-mangostin, carnosic acid, epigallocatechin gallate, linalool, myricetin, novoimanin, α-terpineol, and totarol, have exhibited synergistic activity with antibiotics against resistant bacteria. This chapter presents information on multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and the use of herbal extracts against them.

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