Publications by authors named "Sushma Bagde Bhatwalkar"
Garlic (), a popular food spice and flavoring agent, has also been used traditionally to treat various ailments especially bacterial infections for centuries in various cultures around the world. The principal phytochemicals that exhibit antibacterial activity are oil-soluble organosulfur compounds that include allicin, ajoenes, and allyl sulfides. The organosulfur compounds of garlic exhibit a range of antibacterial properties such as bactericidal, antibiofilm, antitoxin, and anti-quorum sensing activity against a wide range of bacteria including multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains.
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- Environmental disinfection helps lower hospital infections, which are a big issue around the world.
- In India, natural herbs like garlic, turmeric, carom seeds, and loban are used for fumigation to clean the environment.
- A study found that using these natural products was effective in reducing bacteria in the air and on surfaces, suggesting they could help fight hospital infections.
() colonizes human intestinal tract and is usually harmless to the host. However, several strains of have acquired virulent genes and could cause enteric diseases, urinary tract and even brain infections. Shiga toxin producing (STEC) is an enterohaemorrhagic (EHEC) which can result in bloody diarrhoea and could potentially lead to deadly heamolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
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