Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives
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Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives

Current Knowledge and New Perspectives

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eBook - ePub

Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives

Current Knowledge and New Perspectives

About this book

Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives: Current Knowledge and New Perspectives provides comprehensive and updated data on medicinal plants and plant-derived compounds used as antimicrobials in a range of locations (such as the Balkans, Colombia, India, Lebanon, Mali, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, South Africa, and West Africa). It also provides an overview on the most recent innovations and regulations in the field of drug discovery from ethnobotanical sources. This book will help readers to better appreciate the role of plants and phytomedicines as anti-infectives, to better assess the health benefits of plant-derived products, to help implement new methodologies for studying medicinal plants, and to guide future researchers in the field. Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives: Current Knowledge and New Perspectives is a valuable resource for students, academic scientists, and researchers from the fields of ethnobotany, pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, and microbiology, as well as for professionals working in national or international health agencies, or in pharmaceutical industries. - Provides an overview of new methods and tools developed in the field of drug discovery from ethnobotanical sources (e.g., DNA barcoding, metabolomics, quorum quenching) - Contains real-world insights from experts in the field - Presents specific research program results to inspire further research in additional regions

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780323909990
eBook ISBN
9780323910002
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Botany
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives
  2. Cover
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 A review of medicinal plants used as antimicrobials in Colombia
  9. Chapter 2 Plants used in Lebanon and the Middle East as Antimicrobials
  10. Chapter 3 Medicinal plants in the Balkans with antimicrobial properties
  11. Chapter 4 Medicinal plants used in South Africa as antibacterial agents for wound healing
  12. Chapter 5 The use of South African medicinal plants in the pursuit to treat gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases
  13. Chapter 6 Antibacterial activity of some selected medicinal plants of Pakistan
  14. Chapter 7 Medicinal plants used as antidiarrheal agents in the lower Mekong basin
  15. Chapter 8 Medicinal plants from West Africa used as antimalarial agents: an overview
  16. Chapter 9 Mycobacterial quorum quenching and biofilm inhibition potential of medicinal plants
  17. Chapter 10 Untargeted metabolomics for the study of antiinfective plants
  18. Chapter 11 Value chains and DNA barcoding for the identification of antiinfective medicinal plants
  19. Chapter 12 Fungal endophytes: a source of antibacterial and antiparasitic compounds
  20. Chapter 13 Antiviral potential of medicinal plants: a case study with guava tree against dengue virus using a metabolomic approach
  21. Chapter 14 How history can help present research of new antimicrobial strategies: the case of cutaneous infections’ remedies containing metals from the Middle Age Arabic pharmacopeia
  22. Chapter 15 Improved traditional medicine for infectious disorders in Mali
  23. Chapter 16 Selecting the most promising local treatments: retrospective treatment-outcome surveys and reverse pharmacology
  24. Chapter 17 Nagoya Protocol and access to genetic resources
  25. Index
  26. Index - continued