Tuberculosis is considered a re-emerging disease and one of the most important health problems worldwide. It causes approximately three million deaths every year. In the last decades multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been detected, exacerbating the situation. The main objective of this research was to test the effect of Persea americana and Gymnosperma glutinosum (commonly use...

BACKGROUND Plants have been recognized as a good source of insecticidal agents, since they are able to produce their own defensives to insect attack. Moreover, there is a growing concern worldwide to develop pesticides with low impact to environment and non-target organisms. Hexane-soluble fraction from ethanolic crude extract from fruits of Manilkara subsericea and its triterpenes were conside...

BACKGROUND Cancers are some of the leading causes of human deaths worldwide and their relative importance continues to increase. Since an increasing proportion of cancer patients are acquiring resistance to traditional chemotherapeutic agents, it is necessary to search for new compounds that provide suitable specific antiproliferative affects that can be developed as anticancer agents. Propolis...

ntroduction:The emergence and rapid spread of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium strains, especially falciparum, has become a major concern for health professionals when it comes to malaria prophylaxis treatment, limiting medication options, necessitating the search new antimalarial drugs derived from plants. In mice infected with berghei, function Momordica charantia stem crude methanolic extract ...

Five wild plant species belonging to different families (Chenopodium album, Plantago major, Elytrigia elongata, Filipendula ulmaria and Nigella sativa) widely spread in Russian Federation and the former USSR were evaluated for their ability to inhibit growth of two important human food-borne pathogens (Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes strain EGD-e) and eight plant pathogens (...

We assessed the anti-Listerial activities of crude n-hexane and aqueous extracts of Garcinia kola seeds against a panel of 42 Listeria isolates previously isolated from wastewater effluents in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and belonging to Listeria monocytogenes, Listeria grayi and Listeria ivanovii species. The n-hexane fraction was active against 45% of the test bacteria with zone...