Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and their Components

Preface 1 Alternative antimicrobial approaches to fighting multidrug-resistant infections 2 Natural agents from plants used against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 3 Bioactivity of plant constituents against vancomycin-resistant enterococci 4 The use of natural products as an alternative against Candida species resistant to conventional chemotherapeutics 5 Use of plants in the search for drugs to treat tuberculosis 6 Use of essential oils and their components against multidrug-resistant bacteria 7 Natural products and their perspectives in developing new leishmanicidal molecules 8 Natural products with activity against Schistosoma species 9 Botanical as adjunct therapy and treatment for multidrug-resistant staphylococcal infections 10 Combining essential oils with antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents as a way of coping with multidrug-resistant bacteria 11 Antimicrobial potential of some medicinal plants and their synergistic property: an alternative source to fight against multidrug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms 12 Perspectives and key factors on the usage of herbal extracts against multidrug-resistant gram-negative microorganisms 13 Use of plant-derived extracts and bioactive compound mixtures against multidrug-resistant bacteria affecting animal health and production 14 Essential oils from Compositae family against multidrug-resistant bacteria 15 Harnessing traditional knowledge in the management of multidrug-resistance and prevention of emerging infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa 16 Natural products with activity against multidrug-resistant tumor cells 17 Development of new antiherpetic drugs based on plant extracts: a review