Composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oils of three Satureja species growing in Tanzania

Food Chemistry

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 319-324

  Vagionas, K ^a   Graikou, K ^a   Ngassapa, O ^b   Runyoro, D ^b   Chinou, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Essential oil composition; Lamiaceae; S. masukensis; S. pseudosimensis; Satureja biflora

Indexed keywords

BORNYL ACETATE; BOURBONENE; CIS PIPERITONE OXIDE; ESSENTIAL OIL; ISOMENTHONE; LINALOOL; MENTHONE; NEOISOMENTHOL; SPATHULENOL; TERPENOID; TERPINEN 4 OL; THYMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FUNGUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; SATUREJA BIFLORA; SATUREJA MASUKENSIS; SATUREJA PSEUDOSIMENSIS; TANZANIA;

FUNGI; LAMIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SATUREJA;

EID: 33846925851     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2006.07.051     Document Type: Article

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