Background There is an urgent need to discover new antimicrobial compounds or extracts to
address the crucial problem of increasing microbial resistance against current antibiotics …

The increasing emergence and dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial
pathogens accelerate the desires for new antibiotics. Natural products dominate the …

Plants have been used for thousands of years to flavor and conserve food, to treat health
disorders and to prevent diseases including epidemics. The knowledge of their healing …

Covering: up to November 2008New sources of antimicrobial products need to be identified
due to the existence and constant evolution of resistant microorganisms and phenotypes …

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most serious public health problems. This is of
particular concern when bacteria become resistant to various antimicrobial agents …

The microorganisms that have developed resistance to available therapeutic agents are
threatening the globe and multidrug resistance among the bacterial pathogens is becoming …

A number of papers reporting antimicrobial properties of extracts, essential oils, resins and
various classes of compounds isolated from higher plants have been published in recent …