In vitro Screening of Some Indian Medicinal Plants for Their Activity against Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases

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“…C. latifolium are also traditionally used to treat fistula, tumours, rheumatism, rubefacient earaches, whitlow, tubercle and allergic disorders [18][19][20][21]. Mild antibacterial activity of aqueous leaf extract of this plant has also been investigated against E. coli, P. aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus by some authors [22,23]. Because of the increasing incidence of invasive Candida species infections and their high antifungal resistance, new strategies are needed to suppress the activity of various virulence factors involved in pathogenicity of Candida species.…”

Tagetes lucida Cav. essential oil and the mixture of its main compounds are antibacterial and modulate antibiotic resistance in multi-resistant pathogenic bacteria

“…For example, some plants with essential oils that inhibit efflux pumps of multidrug‐resistant bacterial species are: Rauwolfia vomitoria , Silybum marianum , Artemisia annua , Punica granatum , Dalea spinosa , Ipomoea tricolor , Rosmarinus officinalis , Thymus vulgaris , Piper nigrum , Prosopis juliflora and some others that inhibit β‐lactamases (Malik et al . 2015; Saeidi et al . 2015; Sana et al .…”

“…The combination of antibiotics with adjuvants, as compared with single antibiotics, is attractive because of their potential to increase potency and slow the acquisition of resistance or prevent the evolution of resistance (Tekin et al 2016;Chouhan et al 2017). For example, some plants with essential oils that inhibit efflux pumps of multidrug-resistant bacterial species are: Rauwolfia vomitoria, Silybum marianum, Artemisia annua, Punica granatum, Dalea spinosa, Ipomoea tricolor, Rosmarinus officinalis, Thymus vulgaris, Piper nigrum, Prosopis juliflora and some others that inhibit b-lactamases (Malik et al 2015;Saeidi et al 2015;Sana et al 2015;Venkatadri et al 2015;Saviuc et al 2016). Combining an antibiotic with essential oil is expected to slow or stop bacterial resistance more strongly than an antibiotic with a single resistance inhibitor.…”