Antifungal activities of extracts from Thai medicinal plants against opportunistic fungal pathogens associated with AIDS patients

Mycoses

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 333-338

  Phongpaichit, Souwalak ^a   Subhadhirasakul, Sanan ^a   Wattanapiromsakul, Chatchai ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

AIDS; Alpinia galanga; Antifungal; Boesenbergia pandurata; Candida albicans; Cryptococcus neoformans; Microsporum gypseum

Indexed keywords

ACANTHUS EBRACTEATUS EXTRACT; ALPINIA GALANGA EXTRACT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BETEL EXTRACT; BOESENBERGIA PANDURATA EXTRACT; CHLOROFORM; COCCINIA GRANDIS EXTRACT; ECLIPTA PROSTATA EXTRACT; METHANOL; MICONAZOLE; MURRAYA PANICULATA EXTRACT; PIPER CHABA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SPILANTHES ACMELLA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; ZINGIBER ZERUMBET EXTRACT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACANTHACEAE; ACANTHUS EBRACTEATUS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALPINIA; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BOESENBERGIA PANDURATA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COCCINIA GRANDIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ECLIPTA; ECLIPTA PROSTATA; GINGER; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROSPORUM GYPSEUM; MURRAYA; MURRAYA PANICULATA; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PIPER BETLE; PIPER CHABA; PIPERACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SPILANTHES ACMELLA; SQUASH; ZINGIBER ZERUMET; ZINGIBERACEAE; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PATHOGENICITY; THAILAND; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ACANTHACEAE; ACANTHUS EBRACTEATUS; ALPINIA; ALPINIA GALANGA; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ASTERACEAE; BOESENBERGIA PANDURATA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COCCINIA GRANDIS; ECLIPTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; MURRAYA; MURRAYA PANICULATA; PIPER BETEL; PIPER BETLE; PIPER CHABA; PIPERACEAE; SPILANTHES ACMELLA; ZINGIBER; ZINGIBER OFFICINALE; ZINGIBER ZERUMBET; ZINGIBERACEAE;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FUNGI; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; THAILAND;

EID: 27744495098     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2005.01142.x     Document Type: Article

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