Antimycobacterial activity of plant molecules from traditional medicinal plants

Title : Antimycobacterial activity of plant molecules from traditional medicinal plants

Abstract:

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. TB is major challenges for medical filed to management disease. Such as, currently occurrence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR) are creating problems. Also, currently using TB drugs are getting less effective and giving side effects limiting their use. Many people currently using herbal medicine, safety issues are also becoming an important Concern in the management of human diseases. Many medicinal plants are used against various diseases including bacterial infections. Moreover, many plant extracts have been reported as potential sources of antituberculosis agents.  Numerous plants are utilized for the treatment of bacterial diseases including mycobacterial infections by traditional practitioners. Therefore, the present study aimed at studying the isolation of antimycobacterial compounds and tested against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Isolated compounds inhibited the growth of tested organism. We report here some of the compounds are significantly inhibited the growth of M. tuberculosis. 

Key words: Medicinal plants, Antimycobacterial, Mycobacterium sp.

Biography:

Dr. V.Duraipandiyan, is Botany and ethnopharmacology graduated from University of Madras, Chennai.  He has published many articles in the peer reviewed journal. He worked as scientist at Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, and University of Madras. At present he is working as Research Professor at Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He is very interested in anticancer, antidiabetic and antimycobacterial drug discovery from plants and microbes.