Countries like Nepal and India have been using crude plants as medicine since Vedic period. A major part of the total population in developing countries still uses traditional folk medicine obtained from plant resources (Farnsworth 1994). With an estimation of WHO that as many as 80% of worlds population living in rural areas rely on herbal traditional medicines as their primary health care, th...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have estimated that there are 3,713,000 cases of infectious disease associated with day care facilities each year. The objective of this study was to examine the risk reduction achieved from using different soap formulations after diaper changing using a microbial quantitative risk assessment approach. To achieve this, a probability of infection mo...

Majority of regular synthetic antibiotics are in the process of being labeled out-dated owing to multi drug resistance among pathogens. Consequently researchers are devoting interest towards identification and isolation of potent antibacterial compounds from available herbal sources. Aim: The present study was aimed at evaluation of tannin levels, antioxidant potential and antibacterial activit...

The synthesis of nanosized particles of Ag-doped hydroxyapatite with antibacterial properties is of great interest for the development of new biomedical applications. The aim of this study was the evaluation of Ca(10-x)Ag(x)(PO4)6(OH)2 nanoparticles (Ag:HAp-NPs) for their antibacterial and antifungal activity. Resistance to antimicrobial agents by pathogenic bacteria has emerged in the recent y...

Plants are important sources of potentially useful structures for the development of new chemotherapeutic agents. To identify the antibacterial activity of Ceropegia juncea, Ceropegia candelabrum var. candelabrum and Ceropegia spiralis in vitro plant extracts of the plant for its antibacterial activity was performed with different solvents (ethanol, aqueous and chloroform) against various human...

Bacterial infectious diseases, sharing clinical characteristics such as chronic inflammation and tissue damage, pose a major threat to human health. The steady increase of multidrug-resistant bacteria infections adds up to the current problems modern healthcare is facing. The treatment of bacterial infections with multi-resistant germs is very difficult, as the development of new antimicrobial ...

The antibacterial activity of propolis produced throughout the year by different methods of collection (‘intelligent’ collector of propolis ICP; plastic screen PC; conventional scraping CS) on Staphylococcos aureus and Escherichia coli is investigated. Fifteen beehives (five per collector) of Africanized Apis mellifera were used. Monthly produced propolis, with the same collection technique, wa...

Several novel 6-aryl-5-cyano thiouracil derivatives were synthesized and explored for their activities as antibacterial, antifungal and anticancer agents. The antimicrobial evaluation revealed that compounds 7b and 7c possessed superior antibacterial activity against the Gram positive bacteria S. aureus and B. subtilis compared to the reference drug amoxicillin. Moreover, compound 4i was found ...