In vitro anti-microbial activity of the Cuban medicinal plants Simarouba glauca DC, Melaleuca leucadendron L and Artemisia absinthium L

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 615-618

  Valdés, Aymé Fernández Calienes ^a   Martínez, Judith Mendiola ^a   Lizama, Ramón Scull ^b   Vermeersch, Marieke ^c   Cos, Paul ^c   Maes, Louis ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b INSTITUTO DE FARMACIA Y ALIMENTOS   (Cuba)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Cytotoxicity; Plants; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEUCADENDRON; MELALEUCA; MELALEUCA QUINQUENERVIA; MICROSPORUM CANIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; SIMAROUBA GLAUCA; SIMAROUBACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 54349092078     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762008000600019     Document Type: Article

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