Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components
- 2nd Edition - February 18, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editor: Mahendra Rai
- Language: English
Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and their Components, Second Edition offers pharmaceutical and life sciences researchers an overview on the mo… Read more
Description
Description
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.
Key features
Key features
- Presents four new chapters and special focus on plant-based nanoparticles
- 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
- Addresses the need to develop safe and effective approaches to coping with resistance to all classes of antimicrobial drugs
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
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
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: February 18, 2025
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Mahendra Rai
Mahendra Rai is an internationally recognized scholar with extensive contributions to microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology research, particularly in the green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using fungi and their application as nano‑antimicrobials. His work is highly interdisciplinary, bridging microbiology, biotechnology, and nanoscience, and he is an active member of several scientific societies. He has received multiple national and international distinctions, including the Father T.A. Mathias Award from the All-India Association for Christian Higher Education and the Medini Award from the Government of India. Professor Rai has also held numerous visiting scientist and visiting professor positions across Europe, South America, and Asia, contributing to long‑standing research collaborations in countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the United States. His sustained academic impact is reflected in his inclusion among the global top 2% of scientists in nanoscience and nanotechnology, and recognition as one of India’s leading researchers in biology and biochemistry, including a Biology and Biochemistry India Leader Award from Research.com.