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 …

Given the potential adverse effects of chemical drugs, utilizing natural products with diverse
therapeutic and antimicrobial compounds is advisable. Countries can use indigenous flora …

The inappropriate and indiscriminate use of antibiotics exerts a selective pressure among
bacteria, encouraging the appearance of drug-resistant strains. This is an issue of major …

Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance is a worldwide problem accounting for the reduction or
in some cases absence of drugs effectiveness normally used in infections treatment. In the …

Infectious diseases are major threats to humankind and are main reasons for mass mortality.
As a survival mechanism microbes continuously evolve and change their genetic make up to …

Microorganisms not only deteriorate and produce toxins but also cause the food products
harmful resulting in human beings suffering from infection. Plant extracts have been …

In recent years, there has been a continuous increase in resistance to traditional antibiotics
developed by pathogenic bacteria. However, in many parts of the world, several medicinal …

The discovery of penicillin nearly 90 years ago revolutionized the treatment of bacterial
disease. Since that time, numerous other antibiotics have been discovered from bacteria …

In developing as well as developed countries infectious diseases are one of the major
problems. They are caused by pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses …