1Project Trainee (Microbiology), Central Research Laboratory Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Sambalpur University, Burla, Odisha, India
3Assistant Professor (Research), Faculty of Dental Sciences and Nursing, Central Research Laboratory, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Shakti Rath, Assistant Professor (Research), Faculty of Dental Sciences and Nursing, Central Research Laboratory, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, 751003, Odisha, India, e-mail: dr.shaktirath@gmail.com
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
From the time of second world war, the field of medical microbiology has witnessed emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) strains of bacterial pathogens, due to many obvious factors. Moreover, empiric therapy also adds ‘fuel to the fire’ the MDR problem. Unfortunately, there are genetic recombination method, transformation, conjugation and transduction operative in nature facilitating the upgrade of genetic makeup of pathogens from drug sensitivity to resistance. Commensals, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli have epitomized the upgrade of genetic makeup deeply, in causing utmost clinical consternations, as S. aureus/ MRSA is the superbug in the health domain. Notorious MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a great killer, by UTI infection. Today, the torrent of MDR pathogens has been recorded to get circulated in communities and escalate to hospitals, causing damnedest shenanigans of ‘infection dynamics. Down the ages, plants have been an unwitting source of natural products for human health. World Health Organization is widely holding medicinal plants, nowadays, as the best source of drugs. Approximately 80% population of the developed nationsstill use phytomedicines; therefore, phytomedicines or phytodrugs should be investigated more in order to understand their chemical properties and efficacy as medicines
Ethnomedicinal Plants, MDR bacteria, Therapeutics, Odisha, Antibiotic resistance
