Sustainable Use of Plant Products In Ethnomedicine as a Promising Panacea to Effective Control of Trypanosomiasis: A Review

A. ¹ , Aminu ² , A. K.³ , Maigari ⁴ , I. H.⁵ , Hamza ⁶ , I. C.⁷ , Asongo ⁸ , K. I.⁹ , Nadada ¹⁰

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.6 , Issue.2 , pp.13-17, Apr-2019

Online published on Apr 30, 2019

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Abstract :
Trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease causing serious risksto the lives of about 60 million people and 48 million cattle globally. The current chemotherapy of trypanosomiasis relies on some of the drugs such as (suramin, pentamidine, melarsoprol, eflorinithine, arsobal and mel B) to mention but few which were developed more than 30 years ago. Others such as homidium, isometamidium and diminazene aceturate are used in animal infections. Each of these drugs has one or more of the following challenges: expensive, highly toxicity, parenteral administration and parasitic increasing resistance. Nigerian medicinal plants are known to contain a large variety of phytochemical components in the search for potential new drugs against the illness. Some of the plant extracts have been screened for anti-trypanosomes and they are classified based on their family and the specific part used against each parasite.

Key-Words / Index Term :
phytoconstituents, phytochemical, Trypanosomiasis,

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