Antibacterial effects of Carica papaya fruit on common wound organisms

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 290-292

  Dawkins, G ^a   Hewitt, H H ^a   Wint, Y ^a   Obiefuna, P C M ^a   Wint, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CARICA PAPAYA EXTRACT;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EPICARP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT RIPENING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH INHIBITION; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PAPAYA; PLANT SEED; PROTEUS VULGARIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SKIN ULCER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS CEREUS; CARICA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUIT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SEEDS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 1542359999     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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