Nahan: Dr Virender Singh, serving as head, department of life sciences in Himachal Institute of Life Sciences, Paonta Sahib, has formulated antibacterial herbal medicine to deal with bacterial skin disease. Singh, 29, had submitted his record to the Indian Patent office for patent of the research on September 18, 2012. His patent has been published in the official patent journal office, Delhi. Currently, the disease is being diagnosed with antibiotics up to a little extent, but the invention of Dr Singh dealt on a larger extent. The invention relates to an antibacterial formulation comprising water extract of leaves of medicinal plant of Himachal region for killing “Staphylococcus aureus bacteria”. The formulation may optionally comprise of other pharmaceutically acceptable additives. He also claims that it was the first patent in medical microbiology in Himachal Pradesh University. The invention is claimed to be innovative because VRSA (vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) is considered as super bug as it causes many infections in human body so this bacteria showed resistance to expensive antibiotics like Vancomycin having many side effects, but formulated anti-bacterial herb medicine product of Dr Singh are purely herbal and easily available at lower cost along with no side effects in the body. A recent study revealed that VRSA infects 94,000 people and kills 19,000 annually in the US, more deaths than those caused by emphysema, HIV and homicide. Dr Bhardwaj says in India the prevalence of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is 70-80%. He further added that the problem of microbial resistance was growing and the outlook for the use of antimicrobial drugs in the future was still uncertain. Dr Virender Singh, who hails from Raili- Jajri village in Barsar tehsil of Hamripur, was performing experiments in the field for the past four years. Interacting with the Hindustan Times, Dr Singh said this invention was possible due to management cooperation and his team members – Dr Pankaj Chauhan, assistant professor, Shoolini University of Biotechnology, Solan, Dr Tejpal Dhewa, assistant professor, Delhi University, and Manish Jaryal, biotechnology student. Chairman of Himachal Institute of Life Sciences Dr VK Gupta said it was the accomplishment of the institute that it got the opportunity to invent the first patent in the field of microbiology of HP University.
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