Initial antimicrobial activity studies of plants of the riverside forests of the southern Uruguay River

Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

Volumn 19, Issue 1 A, 2009, Pages 20-25

  Bertucci, Ana ^a   Olivaro, Cristina ^a   Da Silva, Pedro Almeida ^b   Ramos, Daniela ^b   Cerdeiras, Maria Pia ^a   Vázquez, Alvaro ^a  

^a Facultad de Química   (Uruguay)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Bioprospection; Candida; Mycobacterium

Indexed keywords

EUGENIA MANSONI EXTRACT; EUGENIA REPANDA EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MYRCIANTHES CISPLATENSIS EXTRACT; PAULLINIA ELLEGANS EXTRACT; PETUNIA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RUPRECHTIA LAXIFLORA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EUGENIA; LISTERIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYRCIANTHES CISPLATENSIS; NONHUMAN; PAULLINIA; PETUNIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RIVER; RUPRECHTIA LAXIFLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; URUGUAY;

EID: 69949106053     PISSN: 0102695X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-695X2009000100005     Document Type: Article

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