Veni Bharti, Neeru Vasudeva

Natural Products Based Therapies: A Threat To Antibiotic Resistance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Due to prevalence of antibiotic resistance, mortality rate due to infectious diseases has been increased up to several times. Newer antibiotics developed will no longer be effective. Hence, there is an urgent need to find alternate antimicrobial therapies with existing antibiotics. This manual provides the information about classification, mechanism of action and general chemical structure of antibiotics, causes and mechanism of antibiotic resistance, antibiotics of natural origin and combination therapies as alternate therapies with herbal extracts or isolated phytoconstituents with another herbal extracts/standard antibiotics; interaction studies of metal ions and bacteriophage with standard antibiotics respectively. It also emphasizes the importance of natural products as alternate source of antibiotics and also obstructions in using the combination therapy efficiently. The present work will be advantageous to researchers, physicians, health care professionals involved in extensive studies in the relevant research area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 179g
• ISBN-13: 9783659423734
• ISBN-10: 3659423734
• Artikelnr.: 39167643

Autorenporträt

Veni Bharti completed M.Pharmacy from Guru Jambheshwer University of S&T, India under mentorship of Dr. Neeru Vasudeva. She was awarded with Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test scholarship (2010-2012) and served as author for many peer reviewed publications. Her work was focused on Quality assessment and biological evaluation of O.vulgare.