Year: 2017
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Chronic wounds have a severe socioeconomic impact on the cost of health care and are predicted to rise substantially in the future with concomitant management costs expected to exceed $18.5 billion by 2021. Herbal remedies for the treatment of wound infections have been used for millennia across a multitude of cultures. As such, there is an increased interest in plant-derived compounds which have the potential to inhibit wound-colonising bacteria, thereby modulating the healing process. This project aimed to investigate the antibacterial properties of compounds present in two plant species denoted 8481 and 8482.
Authors: Vajira Asela Agampodi, Trudi Collet
Language: English
Subfield: Food Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2948757892