
Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components
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Key Features
- Addresses the need to develop safe and effective approaches to coping with resistance to all classes of antimicrobial drugs
- Provides readers with current evidence-based content aimed at using herbal extracts and essential oils in antimicrobial drug development
- Includes chapters devoted to the activity of herbal products against herpes, AIDS, tuberculosis, drug-resistant cancer cells and more
Readership
Natural product researchers, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical scientists and researchers involved in antimicrobial drug discovery, applied microbiology, infectious disease research and antibiotic resistance
Table of Contents
- Preface
1 Alternative antimicrobial approaches to fighting multidrug-resistant infections
2 Natural agents from plants used against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
3 Bioactivity of plant constituents against vancomycin-resistant enterococci
4 The use of natural products as an alternative against Candida species resistant to conventional chemotherapeutics
5 Use of plants in the search for drugs to treat tuberculosis
6 Use of essential oils and their components against multidrug-resistant bacteria
7 Natural products and their perspectives in developing new leishmanicidal molecules
8 Natural products with activity against Schistosoma species
9 Botanical as adjunct therapy and treatment for multidrug-resistant staphylococcal infections
10 Combining essential oils with antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents as a way of coping with multidrug-resistant bacteria
11 Antimicrobial potential of some medicinal plants and their synergistic property: an alternative source to fight against multidrug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms
12 Perspectives and key factors on the usage of herbal extracts against multidrug-resistant gram-negative microorganisms
13 Use of plant-derived extracts and bioactive compound mixtures against multidrug-resistant bacteria affecting animal health and production
14 Essential oils from Compositae family against multidrug-resistant bacteria
15 Harnessing traditional knowledge in the management of multidrug-resistance and prevention of emerging infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
16 Natural products with activity against multidrug-resistant tumor cells
17 Development of new antiherpetic drugs based on plant extracts: a review
Product details
- No. of pages: 296
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2013
- Published: May 24, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123985392
- eBook ISBN: 9780124017085
About the Editors
Mahendra Rai

Affiliations and Expertise
Kateryna Kon

Dr. Kon's scientific contributions include more than 100 publications, 6 books and 18 scientific articles. The main focus of Dr. Kon’s research is antibiotic resistance in bacteria, coping with microbial resistance by plant essential oils and nanoparticles, microbiology of surgical and gynaecological infections, application of different statistical methods to analysis of biomedical data.
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