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High-throughput screening and sensitized bacteria identify an M. tuberculosis dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor with whole cell activity.
(2012)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis, is a bacterial pathogen that claims roughly 1.4 million lives every year. Current drug regimens are inefficient at clearing infection, requiring at ...
Antiplasmodial potential of traditional antimalarial phytotherapy remedies used by the Kwale community of the Kenyan Coast.
(University of Nairobi, 2015-05-20)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE:
In Kenya, 22 million people are at risk of malaria, 70% of them are in rural areas and most of these people use traditional plant based medicines to treat malaria. The aim of the study ...
Phytochemical constituents of some medicinal plants used by the Nandis of South Nandi district, Kenya
(2011)
Alkaloids, saponins, anthraquinones, glycosides, phenolics, terpenoids and flavonoids
distribution in ten medicinal plants belonging to different families were assessed and
compared. The medicinal plants investigated ...