Antifungal property of selected nigerian medicinal plants

Abstract

The effectiveness of common antimicrobial substances to microbial entities has been in doubt in the last three decades. This is as a result of resistance of microbial spoilers and pathogens to these antimicrobial agents. Fungi which are microbial entities are not exempted from the problem of antimicrobial resistance. Most common fungicidal agents are becoming ineffective in treating fungal infections. Hence, the search for antifungal agents has double paced recently. Plants that have the potential to synthesize aromatic substances with antimicrobial properties have been proposed as the sources from which novel and effective antimicrobial substances can be derived. This chapter X-rays the resistance of fungi to common antifungal agents and the possibility of using bioactives from plants to solve the increasing problem of fungal resistance.