22^nd Annual Pathology Congress

Infectious Diseases and Herbal Medicine

Infectious diseases have constituted a huge threat to human lives since the beginning of the human existence. Numerous infectious diseases have defeated through the discovery of antibiotics and antiviral agents. In modern times, natural products or herbal medicine have been playing a wide role in treating several clinical diseases. Most chemical drugs that are extensively used today have been isolated from the natural products, and thus these natural products will continue to be major raw materials for the production and development of new drugs. Currently, various scientific experiments are being conducted in order to fill this gap by evaluating the efficacy of natural product which may include infection by multidrug-resistant bacteria, infectious septic shock, coccidiosis, leishmaniasis, viral influenza and biofilm formation.