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Antimalarial natural products: a review

Objective: Malaria is an infectious disease commonplace in tropical countries. For many years, major antimalarial drugs consisted of natural products, but since 1930s these drugs have been largely replaced with a series of synthetic drugs. This article tries to briefly indicate that some plants which previously were used to treat malaria, as a result of deficiencies of synthetic drugs, have rev...

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Antimicrobial Natural Products

Natural antimicrobials are secondary metabolites that can be found in plants, animals, and microorganisms.Plants, especially herbs and spices, are been given more attention in natural antimicrobial research, however; this chapter focuses on the newly discoveries in fruits and vegetables. Microorganisms that are been used in food fermentation also produce different antimicrobial metabolites incl...

Antimicrobial natural products

The efficiency of antibiotics in combating microbial infections was very promising shortly after their introduction. It was even thought that the microbial war was as good as over as was declared by the Surgeon General of the United States. However, resistance to these agents developed rapidly afterward and the problem of antibiotic resistance has remained a menace threatening the benefits of a...