Antibacterial and antifungal activity of juniper berry oil and its selected components

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 227-231

  Filipowicz, Natalia ^a   Kamiński, Marcin ^a   Kurlenda, Julianna ^b   Asztemborska, Monika ^c   Ochocka, J Renata ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b St Wojciech Adalbertus Hospital   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antibacterial and antifungal activity; Antibiotic resistant strains; Juniper berry oil; Juniperus communis L.

Indexed keywords

3 CARENE; AMPHOTERICIN B; BETA PHELLANDRENE; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; BORNYL ACETATE; CAMPHENE; CARBAPENEM; CARVACROL; CARYOPHYLLENE; ECONAZOLE; ESSENTIAL OIL; FLUCYTOSINE; GERANIOL; HUMULENE; KETOCONAZOLE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MICONAZOLE; MYRCENE; NEROL; NYSTATIN; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SABINENE; TERPINEN 4 OL; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BERRY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; JUNIPERUS; NONHUMAN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FRUIT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; JUNIPERUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MONOTERPENES; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT OILS; TERPENES;

CITHAREXYLUM CAUDATUM; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0344838586     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1110     Document Type: Article

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