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Plants and Fungal Products with Activity Against Tuberculosis

Author(s) -

M.V.N. De Souza

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2005.80

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , context (archaeology) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , disease , medicine , environmental health , virology , biology , pathology , paleontology

Tuberculosis (TB) is becoming an ever more serious worldwide problem. This contagious disease kills four people every minute somewhere in the world and accounts for more than 2 million deaths per year. Due to the rapid spread of TB strains resistant to all the major anti-TB drugs on the market, and the association of TB with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in AIDS, we urgently need to develop new drugs to fight against TB. In this context, due to the importance of nature in the development of new drugs, the aim of the present review is to highlight a series of new and promising anti-TB agents derived from plants and fungi discovered between 2001 and 2005.

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