In vitro antimicrobial activity of some Libyan medicinal plant extracts

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 386-391

  Bogdadi, Hamed Abdelsalam Abdelah ^a   Kokoska, Ladislav ^a   Havlik, Jaroslav ^a   Kloucek, Pavel ^a   Rada, Vojtech ^a   Vorisek, Karel ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Broth microdilution method; Folk medicine; Globularia alypum; Libya; Medicinal plants; Peganum harmala; Pulicaria crispa

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ARTEMISIA HERBA ALBA EXTRACT; CARVACROL; CARVONE; CHLOROFORM; CIPROFLOXACIN; ESSENTIAL OIL; GLOBULARIA ALYPUM EXTRACT; HELICHRYSUM STOECHAS EXTRACT; HEXANE; METHANOL; NYSTATIN; PEGANUM HARMALA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYGONUM EQUISETIFORME EXTRACT; PULICARIA CRISPA EXTRACT; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; THYMOL; THYMUS CAPITATUS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOSPERM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTEMISIA HERBA ALBA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPOSITAE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GLOBULARIA ALYPUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HELICHRYSUM STOECHAS; IN VITRO STUDY; LABIATAE; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PEGANUM HARMALA; POLYGONUM EQUISETIFORME; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULICARIA CRISPA; ROSEMARY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THYMUS CAPITATUS; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE;

ARTEMISIA HERBA-ALBA; ASTERACEAE; GLOBULARIA ALYPUM; HELICHRYSUM STOECHAS; LAMIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PEGANUM HARMALA; PLANTAGINACEAE; POLYGONACEAE; POLYGONUM EQUISETIFORME; POSIBACTERIA; PULICARIA CRISPA; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; THYMUS CAPITATUS; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE;

EID: 34250321992     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13880200701215026     Document Type: Article

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