Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components
By Mahendra Rai, Kateryna KonThe 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 ...
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 7. In Vivo Antileishmanial Activity of Plant-Based Secondary...
By Luiz Felipe Domingues Passero, Márcia D. Laurenti, Gabriela Santos-Gomes... Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 3Laboratório de Química Bioorgânica Prof. Otto R. Gottlieb. Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, ...
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 6. Use of Essential Oils and Their Components...
By M.L. Faleiro, M.G. MiguelAromatic and medicinal plants, through their secondary metabolism, provide a complex mixture of volatile molecules known as essential oils.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 10. Combining Essential Oils with Antibiotics and other...
By Kateryna Volodymyrivna Kon, Mahendra Kumar RaiHigh prevalence of multidrug-resistant microorganisms in the etiologic structure of different infectious processes significantly decreases the effectiveness of the treatment and enhances the probability of an unfavorable outcome from the ...
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 12. Perspectives and Key Factors Affecting the Use...
By Ali Parsaeimehr, Elmira Sargsyan, Amir Reza JassbiIn 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.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 2. Natural Plant Products Used against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus...
By Román Yesid Ramírez RuedaMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is currently one of the most common causes of serious infections, in both hospital and community environments.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 13. Use of Plant-Derived Extracts and Essential Oils...
By Lyndy McGawMany bacterial diseases affect animals, causing important economic losses in livestock.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 11. Medicinal Plants as Alternative Sources of Therapeutics...
By Mital J. Kaneria, Kalpna D. Rakholiya, Sumitra V. ChandaThe various aspects of this review may be helpful for the food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 14. Essential Oils from the Asteraceae Family Active...
By María José Abad, Luis Miguel Bedoya, Paulina BermejoThis review summarizes some of the main reports on the chemistry and antibacterial activity of Asteraceae essential oils in the recent literature (2005 to May 2012).
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 9. Botanicals for Adjunct Therapy and the Treatment...
By T.O. Lawal, K.K. Soni, B.A. AdeniyiHigh prevalence of multidrug-resistant microorganisms in the etiologic structure of different infectious processes significantly decreases the effectiveness of the treatment and enhances the probability of an unfavorable outcome from the ...
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 1. Alternative Antimicrobial Approaches to Fighting Multidrug-Resistant Infections
By Valerie Edwards-JonesThe global increase in antimicrobial resistance has led to renewed interest in alternative antimicrobial treatment strategies.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 15. Harnessing Traditional Knowledge to Treat Existing and...
By Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, M. Fawzi MahomoodallyThis chapter will review some medicinal plants from the African Herbal Pharmacopoeia that show promise for containing existing and emerging infectious diseases.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 3. Bioactivity of Plant Constituents against Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
By Victor KueteThe development of vancomycin resistance by some microbial strains has made the treatment of some infections more difficult and, in many cases, impossible.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 16. Natural Products with Activity against Multidrug-Resistant Tumor...
By Camila Bernardes de Andrade Carli, Marcela Bassi Quilles, Iracilda Zeppone CarlosThis review describes the mechanisms of tumor resistance to drugs and the attempts to discover novel compounds that interact with multidrug-resistant tumor cells.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 4. Natural Products as Alternative Treatments for Candida...
By Maria de las Mercedes Oliva, Mauro Nicolás Gallucci, Maria Evangelina CarezzanoThe genus Candida comprises more than 200 species, but few of them have been associated with human infections.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 17. Development of New Antiherpetic Drugs Based on...
By Adil M. Allahverdiyev, Melahat Bagirova, Serkan YamanHerpes simplex virus (HSV) infections comprise one of the most important health problems worldwide.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 8. Natural Products with Activity Against Schistosoma Species
By Clarissa Campos Barbosa de Castro, Mirna Meana Dias, Túlio Pessoa de RezendeSchistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that affects more than 240 million individuals throughout the world.
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components: Chapter 5. Plants and Tuberculosis: Phytochemicals Potentially Useful in...
By Philip G. KerrIn the search for successful antitubercular treatments, investigators have often turned their efforts to ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and phytochemistry.