Mycotoxins of fungal strains from stored herbal plants and mycotoxin contents of Nigerian crude herbal drugs

Mycopathologia

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-48

  Efuntoye, Moses Olusola ^a  

^a OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Aflatoxins; Ochratoxin A; Semisynthetic media

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXIN B2; AFLATOXIN G1; AFLATOXIN G2; OCHRATOXIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROBIOLOGY; NIGERIA; PHYTOTHERAPY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TIME;

AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXINS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DRUG CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; NIGERIA; OCHRATOXINS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS OCHRACEUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; FUNGI;

EID: 0033508223     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007007418581     Document Type: Article

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