Antimicrobial activity of nine extracts of Sechium edule (Jacq.) Swartz

Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-39

  Ordonez A A L ^a   Gomez, J D ^a   Cudmani, N M ^a   Vattuone, M A ^a   Isla, María Inés ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Papa del aire; Sechium edule

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; SECHIUM EDULE EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EVALUATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECHIUM EDULE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA; SECHIUM EDULE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0042696038     PISSN: 0891060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0891060010015583     Document Type: Article

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