Antimicrobial activity of neotropical wood and bark extracts

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 208-215

  Rovira, Ivelisse ^a   Berkov, Amy ^a   Parkinson, Ainsley ^a   Tavakilian, Gérard ^b   Mori, Scott ^c   Meurer Grimes, Barbara ^a,d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Centre de Cayenne   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY   (United States)

^d Zenyth Therapeutics Limited Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bombacaceae; Caesalpiniaceae; Candida albicans; Elaeocarpaceae; Enterococcus faecilis; Escherichia coli; Ethnomedicine; Fabaceae; French Guiana; Lecythidaceae; Mimosaceae; Sapotaceae; Staphylococcus aureus; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae

Indexed keywords

COURATARI EXTRACT; ELAEOCARPACEAE EXTRACT; ESCHWEILERA EXTRACT; GUSTAVIA EXTRACT; SAPOTACEA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SCREENING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRENCH GUIANA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAESALPINIOIDEAE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COURATARI; ELAEOCARPACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHWEILERA; FABACEAE; GUSTAVIA; LECYTHIDACEAE; MALVACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SAPOTACEAE; SLOANEA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032707122     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/phbi.37.3.208.6297     Document Type: Article

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