Anti-Toxoplasma activity of vegetal extracts used in West African traditional medicine

Parasite

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-7

  Benoit Vical, F ^a   Santillana Hayat, M ^b   Kone Bamba, D ^c   Mallie, M ^a   Derouin, Francis ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Ethnopharmacology; In vitro; Ivory Coast; Medicinal plant; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERNONIA; VERNONIA COLORATA;

PLANT EXTRACT;

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0034153607     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2000071003     Document Type: Article

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