A Search for Antibacterial Agents

This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing antibacterial agents

with clinical practicality and alternatives to synthetic antibacterial agents through

detailed reviews of diseases and their control using alternative approaches. The book

aims at explaining bacterial diseases and their control via synthetic drugs replaced by chemicals obtained from different natural resources which present a future direction in the pharmaceutical industry. The book attempts to present emerging low cost and environmentally friendly drugs that are free from side effects studied in the

overlapping disciplines of medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology and

pharmacology.