Antimicrobial activity of essential oils from Tunisian aromatic plants

Flavour and Fragrance Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 380-383

  Bouzouita, Nabiha ^a   Kachouri, Faten ^a   Hamdi, Moktar ^b   Chaabouni, Mohamed Moncef ^a  

^a Ecole Superieure des Industries Alimentaires   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Antifungal activity; Essential oil composition; Labiatae; Lauraceae; Laurus nobilis; Myrtaceae; Myrtus communis; Ocimum basilicum; Thymus capitatus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STRAIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

CARVACROL; CARYOPHYLLENE; CINEOLE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GERANYL ACETATE; LAURUS EXTRACT; LINALOOL; MYRTUS COMMUNIS EXTRACT; OCIMUM BASILICUM EXTRACT; PARA CYMENE; PLANT EXTRACT; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; THYME OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASIL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL STRAIN; GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LAURUS; MYRTLE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; THYME; TUNISIA;

BASILICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; GEOTRICHUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LAMIACEAE; LAURACEAE; LAURUS; LAURUS NOBILIS; MYRTACEAE; MYRTUS COMMUNIS; OCIMUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM; THYMUS CAPITATUS;

EID: 0141523275     PISSN: 08825734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ffj.1200     Document Type: Article

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