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

Professor Mahendra Rai is a UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow and former head of the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India. Presently, he is a visiting Scientist at the Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. His areas of expertise include microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Currently, his group’s main research interest is green synthesis of metal nanoparticles particularly using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. Prof. Rai has received several prestigious awards, including the Medini Award by the Government of India. He has been featured in Stanford’s list of the top 2% of scientists in nanoscience.

Part I: General
1. Alternative antimicrobial approaches to fighting multidrug-resistant infections
2. Multidrug resistance reversing potential of traditionally used medicinal plants
3. Harnessing traditional knowledge in the management of multidrug-resistance and prevention of emerging infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa

Part II: Plant-derived antimicrobials against Multidrug-resistance
4. Potential of plant-derived bioactive compounds for reversal of Multidrug resistance
5. Natural agents from plants used against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
6. Bioactivity of plant constituents against vancomycin-resistant enterococci
7. Use of plants in the search for drugs to treat tuberculosis
8. Natural products and their perspectives in developing new leishmanicidal molecules
9. Natural products with activity against Schistosoma species
10. Botanical as adjunct therapy and treatment for multidrug-resistant staphylococcal infections
11. Combining essential oils with antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents as a way of coping with multidrug-resistant bacteria
12. Antimicrobial potential of some medicinal plants and their synergistic property: an alternative source to fight against multidrug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms
13. Perspectives and key factors on the usage of herbal extracts against multidrug-resistant gram-negative microorganisms
14. Use of plant-derived extracts and bioactive compound mixtures against multidrug-resistant bacteria affecting animal health and production
15. Use of essential oils and their components against multidrug-resistant bacteria
16. Essential oils from Compositae family against multidrug-resistant bacteria
17. Natural products with activity against multidrug-resistant tumor cells
18. Development of new antiherpetic drugs based on plant extracts: a review
19. Natural products as an alternative against Candida species resistant to conventional chemotherapeutics
20. Plant products and essential oil therapy for treatment of new and emerging viruses
21. Flavonoids to combat multidrug-resistance in microbes and cancer

Part III Nanotechnology-based tools against MDR
22. Plant-derived natural compounds delivery by nanoparticles to fight multidrug resistance
23. Bioinspired green synthesis of nanoparticles by plants to fight against Multidrug-resistant microbes