Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives

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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1. A review of medicinal plants used as antimicrobials in Colombia
   
   2. Plants used in Lebanon and the Middle East as antimicrobials
   3. Medicinal plants in the Balkans with antimicrobial properties
   4. Medicinal plants used in South Africa as antibacterial agents for wound healing
   5. The use of South African medicinal plants in the pursuit to treat gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases
   6. A selection of antibacterial medicinal plants from Pakistan
   7. Medicinal plants used as anti-diarrheal agents in the lower Mekong basin
   8. Medicinal plants from West Africa used as antimalarial agents: an overview
   9. Mycobacterium quorum quenching and biofilm inhibition potential of medicinal plants
   10. Untargeted metabolomics for the study of anti-infective plants
   11. Value chains and DNA barcoding for the identification of anti-infective medicinal plants
   12. Fungal endophytes: a source of antibacterial and antiparasitic compounds
   13. Antiviral potential of medicinal plants: a case-study with guava tree against dengue virus using a metabolomic approach
   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
   15. Improved traditional medicine for infectious disorders in Mali
   16. Selecting the most promising local treatments. Retrospective treatment outcome surveys and reverse pharmacology
   17. Nagoya Protocols and ABS: basic concepts