Fungal Diseases of Animals: Symptoms and Their Cure by Natural Products

Abstract

From ancient times people have been using medicinal plants for the treatment of a wide variety of diseases. This traditional use of plants is based upon pragmatic, timeless trial and error, correlating certain plants to the management and cure of particular diseases. The traditional way by which these plants were used can still be found in communities, passed down through natural history, and still prevails. MAPs possess a wide range of pharmacological activities. The use of medicinal plants has been increasing steadily with notable use in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries. With the discovery and extensive consumption of synthetic antibiotics, some resistant strains of microbes like multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (PRSP), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) have emerged and are a threat to the successful treatment of different dreadful diseases associated with these microbes. Thus, it is a strong challenge to the scientist community to search for alternatives to curb these dreadful diseases.