Antibacterial activity of essential oils from Australian native plants

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 643-646

  Wilkinson, Jenny M ^a   Cavanagh, Heather M A ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Australian; Essential oils

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; PLANT EXTRACT; TEA TREE OIL;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ANETHOLE ANISATA; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CALLISTRIS GLAUCOPHYLLIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EREMOPHILA (ANGIOSPERM); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELALEUCA; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THYPTOMINE CALYCINA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT OILS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; TEA TREE OIL;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; CALYCINA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EREMOPHILIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUCALYPTUS; MELALEUCA; MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 25444481057     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1716     Document Type: Article

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