Additive antmicrobial effects of the active components of the essential oil of thymus vulgaris - Chemotype carvacrol

Planta Medica

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1231-1236

  Iten, Felix ^a   Saller, Reinhard ^a   Abel, Gudrun ^b   Reichling, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Bionorica AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Kill rate; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Lamiaceae; Partial synergism; Thymus vulgaris L.

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BORNEOL; CARVACROL; ESSENTIAL OIL; GERANIOL; LINALOOL; PARA CYMENE; TERPINENE; THYME OIL; THYMOL; TERPENE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; THYME; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAMIACEAE; THYMUS VULGARIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MONOTERPENES; OILS, VOLATILE; THYMUS PLANT;

EID: 70350751604     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: 14390221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1185541     Document Type: Article

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