Composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oils of two populations of Tanzanian Lippia javanica (Burm. f.) Spreng. (Verbenaceae)

Flavour and Fragrance Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-224

  Ngassapa, Olipa ^a   Runyoro, Deborah K B ^a   Harvala, Evangelia ^b   Chinou, Ioanna B ^b  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Lippia javanica; Volatiles

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPOSITION; FUNGI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BORNEOL; CAMPHENE; CAMPHOR; CARYOPHYLLENE; CINEOLE; CITRAL; EPOXIDE; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; GERANIOL; GERMACRENE D; HUMULENE; HYDROCARBON; KETONE DERIVATIVE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; LIPPIA EXTRACT; MYRCENE; NEROLIDOL; PINENE; PLANT EXTRACT; SABINENE; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE; SPATHULENOL; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; TERPINEOL; TERPINOLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERBENONE;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TANZANIA;

DRYOBALANOPS; FUNGI; LIPPIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; VERBENACEAE;

EID: 0038288926     PISSN: 08825734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ffj.1195     Document Type: Article

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