Antifungal activity of Eugenia umbelliflora against dermatophytes

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1181-1184

  Machado, Karina E ^a   Cechinel Filho, Valdir ^a   Cruz, Rosana C B ^a   Meyre Silva, Christiane ^a   Bella Cruz, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO ITAJAÍ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Betulinic acid; Dermatophyte; Eugenia; Syzygium

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; AGAR; ALPHA AMYRIN; BETA AMYRIN; BETULIC ACID; BETULIN; DICHLOROMETHANE; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; TARAXEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; TRITERPENE;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DERMATOPHYTE; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; EUGENIA; EUGENIA UMBELLIFLORA; FRUIT; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSPORUM CANIS; PLANT LEAF; SAPROTROPH; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CHEMISTRY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DRUG EFFECT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION;

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; MICROSPORUM CANIS; MYRTACEAE; SYZYGIUM; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DERMATOMYCOSES; EUGENIA; FRUIT; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; TRITERPENES;

EID: 73349105916     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400904     Document Type: Article

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