Chemical composition and antibacterial and antimutagenic activity of Tunisian Rosmarinus officinalis L. oil from Kasrine

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 61-65

  Marzouk, Zohra ^a   Neffati, Aicha ^a   Marzouk, Belsem ^b   Chraief, Imed ^c   Fathia, Khemiss ^d   Ghedira, Leila Chekir ^d   Boukef, Kamel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^e Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Ames test; Antibacterial activity; Antimutagenicity; Chemotype; Essential oil composition; Mutagenicity; Rosmarinus officinalis L.

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 33845457118     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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