Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives

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Medicinal Plants as Anti-infectives: Current Knowledge and New Perspectives will help readers better appreciate the role of plants and phytomedicines as anti-infectives to better assess the health benefits of plant-derived products, help implement new methodologies for studying medicinal plants, and guide future research in the field of antimicrobials from plants. This book describes medicinal plants and plant-derived compounds investigated for their anti-infective properties in different geographic areas, also detailing their current uses as phytomedicines or drugs in health care systems. Contributions from experts in each discipline make this book essential in the fields of ethnobotany, phytotherapy, pharmacognosy and phytochemistry. Infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, diarrheal illnesses, and venereal diseases, still represent a major human health threat across the globe. These diseases are caused by microbial pathogens, namely bacteria, parasites, fungi, and viruses. While most of these organisms have been known for decades, new microbes are emerging and can have devastating socio-economic impact. The Covid-19 pandemic is a typical example of such global burden. Not only new microbes are appearing, but they can also become resistant to treatments. Antimicrobial resistance is another major health problem that could deeply change the face of the world if no new therapeutic options are discovered. Plants have been used for centuries for treating infectious diseases, and some anti-infective compounds from plants have been developed in drugs. Due to the large diversity of secondary metabolites in plants, more compounds have to be discovered and they can be used to fullfil the needs for new antimicrobials.