Antimycobacterial crude plant extracts from South, Central, and North America

Phytomedicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-145

  Cantrell, C L ^a   Fischer, N H ^a   Urbatsch, L ^a   McGuire, M S ^b   Franzblau, S G ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimycobacterial; Antitubercular; BACTEC radiorespirometric assay; Extracts; Mycobacteria; Mycobacterium avium; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Plants; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BORRICHIA FRUTESCENS; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ERIGERON STRIGOSUS; EUTHAMIA LEPTOCEPHALA; HELENIUM; INULA HELENIUM; MAGNOLIA ACUMINATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SOLIDAGO ARGUTA;

EID: 3843097301     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-7113(98)80011-1     Document Type: Article

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