In recent years, a group of antibacterial proteins produced by gram-positive bacteria have attracted great interest in their potential use as food preservatives and as antibacterial agents to combat certain infections due to gram-positive pathogenic bacteria. They are ribosomally synthesized peptides of 30 to less than 60 amino acids, with a narrow to wide antibacterial spectrum against gram-po...

Bacteriophage research has seen many peaks and troughs over the past century ascending with phage therapy and application in the early 1900’s; a research peak which was largely overshadowed by the dawning of the antibiotic era, and which has now deservedly regained attention as an approach against the problematic rise in antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria. Following this initial scientifi...

sudarshan churna (sc) is very potent ayurvedic medicine ; composed of 42 medicinal plants, which is used traditionally in treatment of malaria, viral fever, and bacterial infection. the present study was designated to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of aqueous extract of sudarshan churna (asc) using the paper disc diffusion method. the asc was found active against the gram-negative bacteria...