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Natural Products For Infectious Diseases, Kang-Ju Kim, Xiangqian Liu, Takashi Komabayashi, Seung-Il Jeong, Serkan Selli
Natural Products For Infectious Diseases, Kang-Ju Kim, Xiangqian Liu, Takashi Komabayashi, Seung-Il Jeong, Serkan Selli
Dental Medicine Faculty Publications
Editorial introduction to Natural Products For Infectious Diseases, the 2016 special issue of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, including 7 research articles and 1 review article addressing the efficacies of natural products for treating infectious diseases, such as infection by multidrug-resistant bacteria, viral influenza, coccidiosis, leishmaniasis, infectious septic shock, and biofilm formation. These articles represent pharmacological activity tests, investigation of action mechanisms of natural products, clinical trials with scientific statistical analyses, and phytochemical analyses of bioactive components in medicinal plants, which are important for scientific validation of the use of natural products in alternative and complimentary medicine.