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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components
- 1st Edition - May 24, 2013
- Editors: Mahendra Rai, Kateryna Kon
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 8 5 3 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 1 7 0 8 - 5
Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and their Components offers scientists a single source aimed at fighting specific multidrug-resistant (MDR) mic… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and their Components offers scientists a single source aimed at fighting specific multidrug-resistant (MDR) microorganisms such as bacteria, protozoans, viruses and fungi using natural products. This essential reference discusses herbal extracts and essential oils used or under investigation to treat MDR infections, as well as those containing antimicrobial activity that could be of potential interest in future studies against MDR microorganisms. The need to combat multidrug-resistant microorganisms is an urgent one and 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
- Addresses the need to develop safe and effective approaches to coping with resistance to all classes of antimicrobial drugs
- 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
Natural product researchers, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical scientists and researchers involved in antimicrobial drug discovery, applied microbiology, infectious disease research and antibiotic resistance
- No. of pages: 296
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 24, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123985392
- eBook ISBN: 9780124017085
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Mahendra Rai
Professor Mahendra Rai is a UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow and former head of the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India. Presently, he is a visiting Scientist at the Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. His areas of expertise include microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Currently, his group’s main research interest is green synthesis of metal nanoparticles particularly using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. Prof. Rai has received several prestigious awards, including the Medini Award by the Government of India. He has been featured in Stanford’s list of the top 2% of scientists in nanoscience.
Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Scientist, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, PolandKK
Kateryna Kon
Dr. Kateryna Kon, MD, PhD, currently works at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology at Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine as an Associate Professor. Dr. Kon received the Best Young Scientist of Kharkiv Award in 2007. She has ten years of teaching and fifteen years of research experience. She is an editorial board member of six international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Kon's scientific contributions include more than 100 publications, 6 books and 18 scientific articles. The main focus of Dr. Kon’s research is antibiotic resistance in bacteria, coping with microbial resistance by plant essential oils and nanoparticles, microbiology of surgical and gynaecological infections, application of different statistical methods to analysis of biomedical data.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, UkraineRead Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components on ScienceDirect