Moringa olefiera: Could this be an Answer to our Need for an Alternative to Fighting Drug-Resistance and Chronic Infections?

Each year, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spend a substantial amount of time and resources to help fight the war on antibiotic resistance. This agency has focused a lot of its attention on education and reducing the use and unnecessary prescribing of these drugs. Over the past 25 years, the development of new antimicrobial drugs is dwindling, while the development of resistance to human or food animal therapeutic agents continue to double [1]. The use of subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics in animal feed in recent years has raised concern about the development of resistant pathogens in animals and their transfer through food to humans, and placed pressure on meat producers to eliminate the use of antibiotics in food animals. As such, there is increased interest in identifying substances that can reduce the use of in-feed sub-therapeutic antibiotics. Nutraceuticals, or natural supplement that promotes animals’ defense against infection and disease can serve as a suitable substitute for the antibiotics.