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| Title: | Antimicrobials of plant origin against TB and other infections and Economics of plant drugs –Introspection |
| Authors: | Dubey, Debasmita
Rath, Shakti
Sahu, Mahesh C
Debata, Nagen K
Padhy, Rabindra N |
| Keywords: | Antimicrobials
Phytodrugs
Multidrug-resistant bacteria
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
MRSA |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: AO1D 11/14, AO1D 4/50 |
| Abstract: | An overview on work published on
antimicrobial activity of plants indicated that very limited work is reported
on antimicrobial activities against multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogenic
bacteria, especially the tuberculosis (TB) bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. But considerable work has been done
with the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Active
principles from the tea tree oil plant, as well as the berberine found in many
plants were reported to be effective against MRSA. For the control of many MDR
pathogenic bacteria including M. tuberculosis,
a systematic screening of plants would be the step towards drug-development
from plants that would be economically viable too in the medicinal plant trade.
In developing and developed countries phytodrugs with several commercial
formulations are amply available, those are economical enough. A discussion on
the economics of trade on medicinal plants is done that clarifies that raw
products for healthcare are almost universally popular. It is discussed that
crude plant extracts as antimicrobials are preferable, since resistance in
pathogens would not be easy, for an array of compounds; and drug development
for MDR-TB is need of the day. |
| Page(s): | 225-233 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.11(2) [April 2012]
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