Targeted Screening of Bioactive Plant Extracts and Phytocompounds Against Problematic Groups of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

Modern Phytomedicine: Turning Medicinal Plants into Drugs

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 173-197

  Aqil, Farrukh ^a   Ahmad, Iqbal ^a   Owais, Mohammad ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Against problematic groups of multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria; Bioactive plant extracts; Modern phytomedicine; Phytocompounds; Synergy between phytocompounds and antibiotics; Targeted screening; Targeting gene transfer mechanisms; Targeting pathogenicity; Targeting R plasmid elimination; Targeting virulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957795509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527609987.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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