Natural Products as Alternative Treatments for Candida Species Resistant to Conventional Chemotherapeutics

Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and their Components

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 31-43

  Oliva, Maria de las Mercedes ^a   Gallucci, Mauro Nicolás ^a   Carezzano, Maria Evangelina ^a   Demo, Mirta Susana ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Antifungal resistance; Antimycotics; Candida; Candidiasis; Essential oils; Natural products; Plant extracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896113562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398539-2.00004-5     Document Type: Chapter

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