Five essential oils from aromatic plants of Cameroon: Their antibacterial activity and ability to permeabilize the cytoplasmic membrane of Listeria innocua examined by flow cytometry

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 395-400

  Nguefack, J ^a   Budde, B B ^b   Jakobsen, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Essential oils; Flow cytometry; Food borne bacteria; Natural food preservative; Rapid method

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CELL MEMBRANES; DISEASES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOD PRESERVATIVES; LISTERIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBACTERIAL EFFECTS; ANTIBACTERIALS; AROMATIC PLANTS; CAMEROON; CARBOXY FLUORESCEINS; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; FOOD-BORNE BACTERIA; NATURAL FOOD PRESERVATIVES; RAPID METHOD;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; ESSENTIAL OIL; FOOD PRESERVATIVE; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM EXTRACT;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ESSENTIAL OIL; FLOW CYTOMETRY;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BASIL; CAMEROON; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; EXTRACTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GINGER; LISTERIA INNOCUA; NONHUMAN; PLANT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THYME;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

BASILICUM; CYMBOPOGON; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; OCIMUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THYMUS VULGARIS; ZINGIBER; ZINGIBER OFFICINALE;

EID: 7044246191     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2004.01587.x     Document Type: Article

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