Effect of Essential Oil of Ocimum gratissimum on the Trypanosomatid Herpetomonas samuelpessoai

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 269-275

  Holetz, Fabíola Barbieri ^a   Ueda Nakamura, Tânia ^a   Filho, Benedito Prado Dias ^a   Cortez, Diogenes Aparício Garcia ^a   Morgado Díaz, José Andrés ^b   Nakamura, Celso Vataru ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Herpetomonas samuelpessoai; Medicinal plants; Ocimum gratissimum; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

HERPETOMONAS; HERPETOMONAS PESSOAI; OCIMUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0346282954     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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