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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and their Components, Second Edition offers pharmaceutical and life sciences researchers an overview on the most relevant studies for fighting specific multidrug-resistant (MDR) microorganisms such as bacteria, protozoans, viruses, and fungi using natural products. This new edition expands the coverage of uses of traditional medicinal plants to against MDR, includes new chapters on the potential of plant-derived bioactive compounds for reversal of multidrug resistances, covers the use of flavonoids to combat microbes and cancer, and the use of nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicle. The need to combat multidrug-resistant microorganisms is an urgent one. This book provides important coverage of mechanism of action, the advantages and disadvantages of using herbal extracts, essential oils and their components, and more, to aid researchers in effective antimicrobial drug discovery.

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Author:   Mahendra Rai (Visiting Scientist, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9780443290442

ISBN 10:   044329044
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   01 January 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Part I: General 1. Alternative antimicrobial approaches to fighting multidrug-resistant infections 2. Multidrug resistance reversing potential of traditionally used medicinal plants 3. Harnessing traditional knowledge in the management of multidrug-resistance and prevention of emerging infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa Part II: Plant-derived antimicrobials against Multidrug-resistance 4. Potential of plant-derived bioactive compounds for reversal of Multidrug resistance 5. Natural agents from plants used against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 6. Bioactivity of plant constituents against vancomycin-resistant enterococci 7. Use of plants in the search for drugs to treat tuberculosis 8. Natural products and their perspectives in developing new leishmanicidal molecules 9. Natural products with activity against Schistosoma species 10. Botanical as adjunct therapy and treatment for multidrug-resistant staphylococcal infections 11. Combining essential oils with antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents as a way of coping with multidrug-resistant bacteria 12. Antimicrobial potential of some medicinal plants and their synergistic property: an alternative source to fight against multidrug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms 13. Perspectives and key factors on the usage of herbal extracts against multidrug-resistant gram-negative microorganisms 14. Use of plant-derived extracts and bioactive compound mixtures against multidrug-resistant bacteria affecting animal health and production 15. Use of essential oils and their components against multidrug-resistant bacteria 16. Essential oils from Compositae family against multidrug-resistant bacteria 17. Natural products with activity against multidrug-resistant tumor cells 18. Development of new antiherpetic drugs based on plant extracts: a review 19. Natural products as an alternative against Candida species resistant to conventional chemotherapeutics 20. Plant products and essential oil therapy for treatment of new and emerging viruses 21. Flavonoids to combat multidrug-resistance in microbes and cancer Part III Nanotechnology-based tools against MDR 22. Plant-derived natural compounds delivery by nanoparticles to fight multidrug resistance 23. Bioinspired green synthesis of nanoparticles by plants to fight against Multidrug-resistant microbes

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Professor Mahendra Rai is a UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow and former head of the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India. Presently, he is a visiting Scientist at the Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. His areas of expertise include microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Currently, his group’s main research interest is green synthesis of metal nanoparticles particularly using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. Prof. Rai has received several prestigious awards, including the Medini Award by the Government of India. He has been featured in Stanford’s list of the top 2% of scientists in nanoscience.

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