Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 13. Use of Plant-Derived Extracts and Essential Oils...

Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 13. Use of Plant-Derived Extracts and Essential Oils...
ISBN-10
0128066849
ISBN-13
9780128066843
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
Author
Lyndy McGaw

Description

Many bacterial diseases affect animals, causing important economic losses in livestock. Subtherapeutic antibiotic use in production animals as antibiotic growth promoters has been implicated as a causative factor in the development of resistance of bacterial pathogens toward several classes of antimicrobials, some of which are used therapeutically in humans. This has led to the banning of antibiotic growth promoters by the European Union, and such a precedent may be followed in other countries. Alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters are necessary to enable the production of animal protein to keep pace with the expanding world population. One approach is to use plant extracts or essential oils as supplements to provide beneficial effects, including direct antibacterial activity and stimulation of the immune system, or enhancement of ruminal digestion. The risk of resistance developing to a combination of phytochemicals is lower than the risk of resistance against a single antibiotic, and synergistic effects of plant constituents may contribute to the overall activity of the preparation.

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