Is the use of Gunnera perpensa extracts in endometritis related to antibacterial activity?

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-134

  McGaw, L J ^a   Gehring, R ^a   Katsoulis, L ^b   Eloff, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Brine shrimp; Endometritis; Ethnoveterinary; Gunnera perpensa; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARTEMIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUNNERA PERPENSA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LD 50; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTEMIA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LETHAL DOSE 50; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 26944468726     PISSN: 00302465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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