Pasteur and Joubert, in 1877, were among the first to recognize the potential of microbial
products as therapeutic agents and demonstrated that common microorganisms could …

Throughout the ages the world has witnessed the outbreak of many infectious diseases.
Emerging microbial diseases pose a serious threat to public health. Increasing resistance of …

Plants hold great promise as a source of novel antimicrobial agents due to a wide variety of
chemically and structurally diverse secondary metabolites generally grouped into …

Indiscriminate use of antibiotics that often results in the development of “side effects” and
“drug resistance” in the disease‐causing agents indicates the need to search for alternate …

As per WHO reports, about three-quarters (65-80%) of the world's population seek plants or
plant-derived natural products for various diseases. The slow discovery of new synthetic …

Department of MedicinalChemistry, University of Kansas, Laurence, Kansas 66045 Abstract.—
Infectious diseases are of ancient origin, and mankind has a venerable history of use of …

Infectious diseases that are caused by bacteria are an important cause of mortality and
morbidity in all regions of the world. Bacterial drug resistance has grown in the last decades …

The enormous chemical diversity in the plant kingdom and the biochemical metabolic
pathways yet to be discovered remain a challenging area of scientific research. They are a …

The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens has drawn the attention of the
pharmaceutical and scientific communities towards studies on the potential antimicrobial …

Plants represent an inexhaustible source of novel molecules for recent drug discovery
studies. Plant extracts and their active constituents have long been used in traditional …