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Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Section I: Essential oils for Treatment of different microbial diseases
1. Essential oils with antimicrobial properties formulated in lipid nanoparticles: Review of the state of the art
Patrícia Severino, Flavia Resende Diniz Acioli, Juliana Cardoso Cordeiro, Maria do Céu Teixeira, Antonello Santini,Andjelka B. Kovačević, and Eliana B. Souto
2. Antimicrobial activities of plant essential oils and their components against antibiotic-susceptible and antibiotic-resistant foodborne pathogens
Mendel Friedman
3. Essential Oils Constituted by Prop-1(2)-enylbenzene Derivatives Used for Treatment of Microbial Infections
Amner Muñoz-Acevedo, María del Carmen González,Erika Amparo Torres,Martha Cervantes-Díazand Elena E. Stashenko
4. Antibacterial and anti-biofilm activities of essential oils and their components including modes of action
Julio A. Zygadlo,María P. Zunino, Romina P. Pizzolitto, Carolina Merlo, Alejandra Omarini and José S. Dambolena
5. Role of essential oils for the cure of human pathogenic fungal infections
Melina G. Di Liberto, Laura A. Svetaz, María V. Castelli, Mahendra Rai and Marcos G. Derita
6. Essential oils against microbial resistance mechanisms, challenges and applications in drug discovery
Juan Bueno,Fatih Demirci and K. Husnu Can Baser
7. Essential Oils and Nanoemulsions Alternative Tool to Biofilm Eradication
Z. Aumeeruddy-Elalfi and F. Mahomoodally
8. Nano-Ag Particles and Pathogenic Microorganisms Antimicrobial Mechanism and its Application
JiEun Yun and Dong Gun Lee
Section II: Nanotechnology for treatment of different microbial diseases
9. Nanoparticles as therapeutic agent for treatment of bacterial infections
Mahendra Rai, Raksha Pandit, Priti Paralikar, Sudhir Shende, Swapnil Gaikwad,Avinash P. Ingle and Indarchand Gupta
10. Anti-Adhesion Coating with Natural Products:
Juan Bueno
11. Nanotechnologies for the Delivery of Water-Insoluble Drugs
Omar M. Najjar and Rabih Talhouk
12. Potential of oils in development of nanostructured lipid carriers
Anisha A. D’Souza and Ranjita Shegokar
13. Essential Oil-Based Nanomedicines against Trypanosomatides
Maria Jose Morilla and Eder Lilia Romero
14. Combining inorganic antibacterial# nanophases and essential oils recent findings and prospects
Mauro Pollini, Alessandro Sannino, Federica Paladini, Maria Chiara Sportelli,Rosaria Anna Picca, Nicola Cioffi,Giuseppe Fracchiolla and Antonio Valentini
Section III: Antimicrobial activity testing
15. Antimicrobial Activity Testing Techniques
Estefanía Butassi, Marcela Raimondi, Agustina Postigo, Estefanía Cordisco and Maximiliano Sortino
Index
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Preface
There has been emergence of multidrug resistance all over the world due to overuse or underuse of antibiotics. Most microbes including bacteria, fungi, protozoans and others have developed resistance to antibiotics, and therefore, this problem is now recognized as a global problem. Ubiquitous occurrence of multidrug-resistant bacteria decreases effectiveness of current treatment, which results in thousands of deaths all over the world. Hence, investigations for new alternatives and novel strategies are urgently needed to address the problem of multidrug resistance. The antimicrobial potential of essential oils and metallic nanoparticles represent an effective solution for microbial resistance. Moreover, the use of essential oils in combination with metallic nanoparticles may exert synergistic antimicrobial effects and would be the novel approach.
Essential Oils (EOs) are volatile, natural, aromatic oily liquids that can be obtained from several parts of plants especially the aerial ones as leaves and flowers. They are derived from complex metabolic pathways in order to protect plants from diverse pathogenic microorganisms. In fact, the bioactivity of EOs have been confirmed by several studies, including antibacterial, antiviral, antiinflammatory, antifungal, antimutagenic, anticarcinogenic and antioxidant. These bioactivities can be enhanced by emerging technologies like nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology is one of the most important and emerging technologies, which has generated a technological revolution in the world. It has enormous applications in the field of medicine. Nanoparticles are very important tools in curing different diseases in general and microbial diseases in particular due to their significantly novel and improved chemical, physical and biological properties and high surface area-to-volume ratio. Among these, metal nanoparticles are known to play pivotal role in various biomedical applications. In this context, nanoparticles like silver have demonstrated its potential and hoped to be the new generation of antimicrobials. Silver nanoparticles have broad- spectrum biological activities and hence used in many biomedical applications. Many biomedical applications of silver nanoparticles such as for the treatment of wounds, burns, in water-disinfecting systems, in nanobased bone implantations, in dentistry for the development of dental materials and as antibacterial, antivirals, anti-protozoals, anti-arthropods and anticancerous agents. Apart from silver, other metal nanoparticles like gold and platinum and copper, oxides of different metals, etc. have been also the materials of choice for many scientists for their biological applications.
The book would be very useful for a diverse group of readers including chemists, microbiologists, biotechnologists, food technologists, nanotechnologists, pharmacologists, clinicians and those who are interested in a natural cure. The students should find this book useful and reader friendly.
Mahendra Rai
Susana Zacchino
Marcos G. Derita
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List of Contributors
Flavia Resende Diniz acioli, University of Tiradentes (Unit) and Institute of Technology and Research (ITP), Av. Murilo Dantas, 300, 49010-390 Aracaju, Brazil.
Zaahira Aumeeruddy-Elalfi, Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius.
K. husnu can baser, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Near East University, Department of Pharmacognosy, Nicosia, N. Cyprus.
Juan bueno, Research Center of Bioprospecting and Biotechnology for Biodiversity Foundation (BIOLABB), Colombia.
Estefanía butassi, Farmacognosia, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Suipacha 531, Rosario, Argentina.
María V. castelli, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario/Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas/Cátedra de Farmacognosia, Suipacha 531, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Martha cervantes-Díaz, Environmental Research Group for Sustainable Development – Environmental Chemistry Faculty – Universidad Santo Tomás, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Nicola Cioffi, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Department of Chemistry, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Juliana cardoso cordeiro, University of Tiradentes (Unit) and Institute of Technology and Research (ITP), Av. Murilo Dantas, 300, 49010-390 Aracaju, Brazil.
Estefanía cordisco, Farmacognosia, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Suipacha 531, Rosario, Argentina.
José S. Dambolena, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal, CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina. Avenida Velez Sarsfiled 1611.
Fatih Demirci, Faculty of Health Sciences, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey and; Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Marcos G. Derita, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario/Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas/Cátedra de Farmacognosia, Suipacha 531, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina and CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Litoral/Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias/Cátedra de Cultivos Intensivos, Kreder 2805, Esperanza, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Melina G. Di liberto, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario/Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas/Cátedra de Farmacognosia, Suipacha 531, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Anisha a. D’Souza, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), Department of Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering, Powai, Mumbai, India.
Giuseppe fracchiolla, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Dipartimento di Farmacia - Scienze del Farmaco, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Mendel friedman, Healthy Processed Foods Research, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California 94710 USA.
Swapnil Gaikwad, Dr. D.Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, Tathawade, Pune 411 033, Maharashtra, India.
María del carmen González, Chemistry and Biology Research Group – Department of Chemistry and Biology – Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Indarchand Gupta, Nanobiotechnology Lab., Department of Biotechnology, SGB Amravati University, Amravati-444 602, Maharashtra.
Avinash ingle, Nanobiotechnology Lab., Department of Biotechnology, SGB Amravati University, Amravati-444 602, Maharashtra.
Andjelka B. Kovačević, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra (FFUC), Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.
Dong Gun lee, School of Life Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.
Fawzi Mahomoodally, Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius.
Carolina Merlo, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal, CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina, Avenida VelezSarsfiled 1611.
Maria Jose Morilla, Programa d...
