Chemical composition and in vitro antibacterial activity of the essential oil of Minthostachys mollis (Kunth) griseb vaught from the Venezuelan Andes

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 997-1000

  Mora, Flor D ^a   Araque, María ^a   Rojas, Luis B ^a   Ramírez, Rosslyn ^a   Silva, Bladimiro ^a   Usubillaga, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Essential oil; Lamiaceae; Minthostachys mollis; Pulegone; Trans menthone

Indexed keywords

BICYCLOGERMACRENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ESSENTIAL OIL; GERMACRENE D; HUMULENE; ISOPULEGONE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MENTHONE; MINTHOSTACHYS MOLLIS EXTRACT; PIPERITENONE; PIPERITONE; PLANT EXTRACT; PULEGONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISTILLATION; DRUG ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MINTHOSTACHYS MOLLIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VENEZUELA; ANGIOSPERM; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; LAMIACEAE; MINTHOSTACHYS MOLLIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LAMIACEAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE;

EID: 70349563900     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400726     Document Type: Article

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