Screening of Amazonian plants from the Adolpho Ducke forest reserve, Manaus, state of Amazonas, Brazil, for antimicrobial activity

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-38

  Carneiro, Ana Lúcia Basílio ^a   Teixeira, Maria Francisca Simas ^a   De Oliveira, Viviana Maria Araújo ^b   Fernandes, Ormezinda Celeste Cristo ^c   Cauper, Gláucia Socorro De Barros ^d   Pohlit, Adrian Martin ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Hemoterapia do Amazonas HEMOAM   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO LEÔNIDAS E MARIA DEANE   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Antifungal; Bioautography; Diclinanona calycina; Lacmellea gracilis; Plant extract

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALYCINA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DICLINANONA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACMELLEA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

EID: 41249087769     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762008000100005     Document Type: Article

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